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On Twins

On Twins 

Some of you reading this will be twins. Most will be fraternal twins. A few of you will be identical twins. You might even be mirror twins–identical siblings who are the mirror images of the other. Around three in every thousand births is a set of twins, so whatever kind of twin you are, you’re […]

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Hollowgirl Alternate Ending: “Q”

Hollowgirl Alternate Ending: “Q” 

Hashtag Hollowgirl may now be complete, but that’s not the end of the Twinmaker Project. Short stories continue to roll out (“The New Venusians” in Drowned Worlds most recently, “The Lives of Riley” to come) and I have other things up my sleeve. More on them soon. For now, here’s an alternate take on the […]

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Hashtag Hollowgirl

Hashtag Hollowgirl 

The final Twinmaker remix is complete! Below is the raw text that was the source of Hashtag Hollowgirl, the final Twinmaker novel broken down into bite-size bits. I’ve enjoyed this disintegration and reintegration process–the literary equivalent of a d-mat machine. Gee, I hope nothing went wrong in translation . . . What price the mirror, […]

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New Story: “The New Venusians”

New Story: “The New Venusians” 

When Jonathan Strahan asks you to write a story, you write him a story. So that’s what I did. The theme of his new anthology (Drowned Worlds) was pretty broad, and it mapped right onto something I’d been pondering for a while. (All my Twinmaker stories this year are ones I’ve given a lot of […]

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