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flash fiction

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“An Attempt at Exhausting My Deck” by Kij Johnson

April 16, 2020August 26, 2020 by Nina Miller

A short story about backyard ecology, interspecies communities, careful observation, and solitude without loneliness.

Posted in Story, Us In FluxTagged flash fiction, Kij Johnson, Us in Flux
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“The Parable of the Tares” by Christopher Rowe

April 8, 2020August 26, 2020 by Nina Miller

A short story about food, monoculture, and communities that draw together the human and nonhuman.

Posted in Story, Us In FluxTagged Christopher Rowe, flash fiction, Us in Flux
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