One of my stories got published in an online magazine, and I'm very excited to share it with you all :D

https://theberlinliteraryreview.com/dr-suvajeet-duttagupta-the-leviathans-mercy/

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https://daisybrain.medium.com/water-dogs-available-for-preorder-694db9495c91

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Here's my little witch story.

(I love a journal that releases on the solstice.)

https://bit.ly/WitchandSpaceship

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I am posting this for speculative fiction and fantasy writers who want to create truly alien human cultures. Consider this excellent but also unthinking poorly analyzed article (IMHO). The author's culture gets in the way.

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-million-year-lucy-fossil-reveals.html

There is a distinct bias toward patriarchy in this article and the assumption that monogamy was necessary evolutionarily without supporting evidence. Relatedness for the sake of child care can't be clearer if uncles and brothers are the somehow essential male care providers, not some random "father". Matrilineal cultures likely existed until the idea of Indo-Europeans property rights through the male line took over our cultures 6-8 millennia ago. Archeological finds support this. That is the origin of shame, to control women's sexuality at the price of female self-determination to force property rights solely down a patrilineal line.

Humans haven't always lived the way they do now, nor must they in the future.

A thought provoking article—in many ways.

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