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A Sound of Thunder—an incredible statement on the interconnectedness of life, and the symbiotic connection between everything that exists! Profound and powerful!

The Big Black and White Game—is there anything Bradbury can’t write?! It’s astonishing to me how fully he can flesh out characters and themes in just a few pages… Big Poe and his team mates just leap off the page.

Embroidery—Yikes! Short, but packs a visceral and horrifying punch!

I See You Never—😭💔

The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind—Such an interesting allegory for the Cold War!

The Flying Machine—so tragic… 🪽🪓

Invisible Boy—so many overtones from The Emperor’s New Clothes! Raises so many interesting questions about the intersections between identity, decency/morality, inhibitions, self-restraint, and our human need for relationship.

The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl—😱😱😱

The Wilderness—a thoughtful story on what it means to face the unknown, and what sort of agency we do and don’t have in the face of it.

The April Witch—What a curious, magical story! I spent most of the story waffling back and forth between who or what Cecy actually is, and whether she’s a metaphor or real!