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Learning to Fly – Chapter 2.2

Brad Wendel / April 27, 2020

Rehki stared at the three, red power up switches for her spaceship.  This was the moment of truth, the moment that decided whether she had any hope of leaving the slum.  She’d spent the past few days repairing tablets for Ankit, managing only a few hours a night to install her…

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Learning to Fly – Chapter 2.1

Brad Wendel / April 20, 2020

A soft electronic chirp startled Rehki out of a deep slumber.  She scrambled inside the cockpit to find the burner phone Asha gave her as her heart raced like never before.  The gap in the dome above must have let in just enough signal for the call to get through. …

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Learning to Fly – Chapter 1.5

Brad Wendel / April 11, 2020

Rehki slumped down next to the debris pile that rested on top of her spaceship.  “What the hell?” she muttered to the empty warehouse.  “Why give me a spaceship and then make it impossible for me to fix it!”  In response, the metal roof creaked in the wind of the…

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Learning to Fly – Chapter 1.4

Brad Wendel / April 4, 2020

It turned out that re-configuring government tech to support an illegal cellular network for a criminal slum lord took a little bit longer than Rehki thought it would.  The BMC had designed the interfaces to operate inside the slums, knowing full well that techs and non-techs would try to cannibalize…

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Learning to Fly – Chapter 1.3

Brad Wendel / March 29, 2020

“The road to hard-town is paved with opportunity and blood,” the saying went around the slum. Rehki felt a thousand eyes watching her as she passed the shady shelters, brothels and bars.  If there was a prosperous area of the slum, hard-town was as close as it got.  While the…

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Famous Quotes on Writing

  • Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you. Richard Wilbur
  • Science fiction is lots of things to lots of people, but one thing we can all probably agree on is that it gives us a mirror to look at ourselves – a mirror that is translucent and twisted in unexpected ways, and despite or because of this allows us to access a deeper truth, or at least a deeper question. Sean Williams
  • Forget what you think about it and tell what you feel about it. Stephen Crane
  • People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. Ernest Hemingway
  • When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What is says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don’t extinguish ourselves and leave the planet for the cockroaches. J. Michael Straczynski

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