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Paddling PoolClaire Carroll

Claire Carroll — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:00:18 +0000

It’s not unethical to buy one, despite what some people say. Sure, there’s too much plastic in the world, too much material, too many petrochemicals, but no one has told us definitively that it’s not OK. They would have banned them, anyway. It’s completely fine if you want to walk to the hypermarket to [...]

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Emissaries from the PostworldKatharine Haake

Katharine Haake — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:48:09 +0000

Emissaries from the Postworld: Account F One day a flower appeared where nothing ever was before. It had been so long since any one of us had seen a thing we weren’t sure what to call it at first. Um, one said. A-hem, another said. Until one of us arrived at the word: [...]

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FLASH FICTION COMPETITIONWriting Thrutopia

Liz Jensen — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:04:53 +0000

Our mission at Writers Rebel is to motivate writers not only to write about the climate emergency, but to get their work into the world and begin to enrage, engage and inspire readers. Because in order to navigate the crisis and change the business-as-usual narrative of our politicians and mainstream media, we need first [...]

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STRANGER THAN FICTION Melissa Gismondi

Melissa Gismondi — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:59:27 +0000

A few weeks ago, I was working on a story which features a character overwhelmed at the crises facing our world. I typed the words livable future because I wanted the character to engage with the absurdity of such a phrase, the fact that the possibility of it is still — shockingly — up [...]

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