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Propensity for Simulacra examines a world where systems perfect behaviour by erasing humanity itself.

It extends the ideas in When the Camera Becomes the Conscience […]

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Simulacra – When the Camera Becomes the Conscience “The room smells like a tin of low tide.” That’s the first line of Chapter 26, ‘Simulacra’, in Propensity. A small, airless room. A flickering light. Three teenagers – Teddy, Lena, Jama…

In Simulacra (Ch 26 of Propensity), the copy replaces the real. A scene written as script, a morality performed for a camera no one controls.
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A photo of a tree-lined walkway by a lake.

Beautiful afternoon at East Lake Park

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I had the best time today at the Victorian Fair & Market at East Lake Park.

Wonderful vendors with amazing items for sale, friendly guests full of great conversations, Teddy Bear Tea parties all afternoon, new readers! I can't wait for next year's fair!
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The Dystopia Venn: Four Circles of Absolute Nonsense The Dystopia Venn meme has been cluttering up my feeds, four smug circles pretending to classify Orwell, Atwood, Burgess and the rest into some grand unifying theory of nightmare futures. It works …

This is not a political post. The Venn in this diagram feels viscerally correct, but the unions don't work.

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Needle’s Edge: Narrative Origami Editing Needle’s Edge has taken longer than writing it. Drafting was a high—editing is a grind. Recently I untangled a plotline that had started to resemble Inception on ketamine. Flashbacks within…

Spent more time editing Needle’s Edge than drafting it. Editing isn’t polishing; it’s grinding, chiselling, archaeology.

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She’s Come Undone – Spoilers In which I don’t read She’s Come Undone, question Goodreads outrage, and discover the statute of limitations on spoilers expired sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire. Also featuring bears, …

What do She’s Come Undone, Citizen Kane, and a bear on a sledge have in common?

🐻❄️ The answer might get me flagged for spoilers.

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On Chapter 28: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Standardised Test Propensity isn’t your typical novel—and by Chapter 28, it stops pretending to be. This chapter takes the form of a standardised test: absurd, metafictional, and utterly devoid of plot advancement. …

Chapter 28 of Propensity is a standardised test. Not a joke. Not a metaphor. Just 100% narrative deviance. Free to download.

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On the Rails and Off the Map: The Editing Mind Editing is retelling a dream. And dreams don’t care about time, logic, or causality — but your readers do. That’s the crux of this process. Writing lives in the right hemisphere. Editing, firmly in…

Editing isn’t polishing — it’s retelling a dream so it makes sense to someone else. My latest edit revealed a 13-month pregnancy. Turns out, reality still matters—even in nonlinear fiction.

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Spreadsheet Says No During the third revision of my novel, a simple plot matrix in Excel exposed a major timeline error: my protagonist was visibly pregnant during scenes that made it biologically impossible. Here’s h…

Discovered a major plot hole in draft 4—turns out, my protagonist was somehow 8 months pregnant and sprinting through high-stakes scenes.

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Le deuxième sexe – What Rises After the Fall What if the future isn’t forged in rebellion, but in reconstitution? This reflection—sparked by The Second Sex—imagines a society where power no longer pools, but diffuses. Where emotional literacy…

What happens after collapse—when power doesn’t shift, but dissolves? Not a utopia. Just something new.

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East Lake Park
Boat House - Circa . 1935

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The poster reads: Christ Church Ridley Park Presents A program of original songs by Nancy Huebner and Jessica Graae. June 29, 3-4:30 pm 104 Nevin Street Ridley Park, PA. $10 suggested donation. All donations benefit the Ridley Park Food Pantry

Join me and Nancy Huebner for a concert of original music to benefit the Ridley Park Food Pantry,
June 29, 3-4:30 pm.
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“This was the heart and soul of our community”: Residents speak against hospital closures in Chester and Ridley Park, Pennsylvania Residents expressed anger over the shuttering of the hospitals by a Texas bankruptcy court.

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“This was the heart and soul of our community”: Residents speak against #hospitalclosures in #Chester and #RidleyPark, #Pennsylvania

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#amtrak service along the #northeastcorridor was impacted after a #septa train travelling from #philadelphia to #wilmington went up in flames Thursday night. around 6 p.m. on Thursday near the Crum Lynne Station in #ridleypark, #pennsylvania.

USA: Brennender Pendlerzug → 350 Personen sicher evakuiert RIDLEY PARK (USA): Am Abend des 6. Februar 2025 geriet ein sechsteiliger Pendlerzug der Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) auf dem Weg v

USA: Brennender Pendlerzug → 350 Personen sicher evakuiert #Eisenbahn #Maschinenbrand #RidleyPark #USA #Zug
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