When I was reading today's news regarding death of the Pope, and his potential successors it reminded me of 1971 Nebula award winner story 'Good News from the Vatican' by Robert Silverberg. The one where Robot is elected as a new Pope :)

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Delightful conversation w/ @sarenaulibarri on the pod today about #climate #restoration vs. #rewilding & her story WHAT KIND OF BAT IS THIS? in the Bright Green Futures anthology (releases Earth Day!)

https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-29-climate-restoration-with-sarena

A new short story!

This one is about war. War in a faraway, fantasy place. But war nonetheless.

https://profane-tmesis.info/infinite-high-ground

There is a short story, about boys playing with a ball.

On the first paragraph something happens and the ball falls into a ditch or river and the current carries it away.

In the second paragraph, it says the same thing but the speed of the ball is expressed in numbers. The force of the current too.

This goes for a few paragraphs until at the last paragraph it's just one single but complex equation instead of a textual description.

Do you know the title?

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Making progress on the short story. Getting into Damon Runyon’s “voice” comes quickly now. We’ll see how it sounds once I’m done.

Another nice review of the new book! I loved that she enjoyed The Height of Artifice, my most recent story in the collection: "...a man addresses his younger life in theatrical circles, and ponders why why the woman he loved never loved him back. Delightfully sad. And kind of funny at the end."

Find the whole thing here on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7467313788

my translation of Keiichiro Hirano's short story Stress Relay has been published on his homepage. The story originally appeared in the September 2021 edition of Shincho and was adapted as an NHK TV special en.k-hirano.com/esss/stress-... #Japanese #literature #shortstory #translation #adaptation

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1. Enjoyed reading Somerset Maugham's short story "The Book-Bag" while sitting in a diner eating a cheese, pepper, and ham omelette with home fries.

2. In Starbucks, the barista told me how she and her coworkers like to dip madeleines in cold foam. She gave me a free cup so I could try it out. Delicious!

3. Two Kpop groups put out performance videos that I had been wanting to see.

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