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Jonas David is a writer living in the Seattle area. He is an editor at Lucent Dreaming magazine, and his stories have appeared in Fireside Magazine, Writing Disorder and others. Additional writing and info can be found at jonas-david.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @thejonasdavid.

he’s from another generation…

in thirty years i’m an old man at a family gathering and i say something that makes everyone gasp and go silent, and younger people hurry over to shush me up and then later they say quietly to each other ‘he’s just from another generation, in his time it was normal…’ — what will they be talking about?

… in his time people thought women were equal to men, and should have all the same rights, they ev

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