Fact-driven speculative fiction. What could've been. What should've been.
A collection of 18 stand-alone, but related, pieces:
Damages
Home for Unwed Fathers
Fighting Words
Comedown
What Sane Man
Sweet Sixteen
Ballsy
Justified
It's a Boy
Men Need Sex
How We Survived
The Knitting Group
The Mars Colonies
A PostTrans PostPandemic World
Unless
Alleviation
The Women's Party
My Last Year
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"[A] brain-slap of speculative fiction ... 18 stand-alone grenades disguised as stories ..." Reid Winslet
"Just reading ['What Sane Man'] was satisfying." Anonymous, Ovarit
"['Men Need Sex'] is terrific!" An ovarite from Ovarit
"OMG, I love it ['Ballsy']!" Amareldys, Ovarit
"If you read this and it doesn't get you thinking, pondering the issues that it illustrates, and recognizing some of the problems it is illuminating, then I don't want to say you might be a big part of the problem, but ..." 5/5 Big Al's Books and Pals
"Readers who love the speculative social commentary of Margaret Atwood, the sharp edged fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, and the unflinching explorations of gender and power of Naomi Alderman will find in Fighting Words a collection that is satisfying, terrific, and thought provoking." Jessica Irena Smith
