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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)

by Shane Hawk (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

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You show up to basic training and they hand you a sword and a new set of pronouns.

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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

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“You show up to basic training and they hand you a sword and a new set of pronouns.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead

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