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This week on Underground Bookshelf:

Reading Resource: Children's Books About ICE, Deportation, and Immigration in the United States
Author Q&A: with B.W. Alan
Short Story: "Winter Wonderland" by Katerina Schafer

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Often a thread emerges between author guests' readings on Story Hour. This time, it was (in two different ways) an underground railroad blocked off by prejudice. Randee Dawn and Jennifer Hudak read exceptional tales, and the hour ends with hope. Unmissable. #Bookstodon #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #ShortFiction #AuthorReading #FantasyFiction #ScienceFiction #SFF #JenniferHudak #RandeeDawn @randeedawn @jenniferhudakwrites https://youtu.be/lu8CA9VT8bI

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s FABLES are little gems: many would be classed as flash- or microfiction today. You can download all 20 of Stevenson’s FABLES for free from our website – including the one where Long John Silver & Captain Smollett sneak out between chapters of TREASURE ISLAND for a fly smoke & a blether…

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/fables/

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Robert Louis Stevenson
FABLES

Against a background of handwritten text, sloping away into the distance, two ink-black silhouettes of eighteenth-century seamen – one with a crutch and only one leg – address each other. A few blobs of ink surround them. The one-legged man gesticulates at the other, pointing with a still-smoking tobacco pipe.

“I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor.
“You need not hurt me,” said the book; “you will only get less for me second hand, and I did not write myself.”

For World Book Day (UK & Ireland), a fable about a book: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Reader”

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XI—THE READER

“I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor.

“You need not hurt me,” said the book; “you will only get less for me second hand, and I did not write myself.”

“That is true,” said the reader. “My quarrel is with your author.”

“Ah, well,” said the book, “you need not buy his rant.”

“That is true,” said the reader. “But I thought him such a cheerful writer.”

“I find him so,” said the book.

“You must be differently made from me,” said the reader.

“Let me tell you a fable,” said the book. “There were two men wrecked upon a desert island; one of them made believe he was at home, the other admitted—”

“O, I know your kind of fable,” said the reader. “They both died.”

“And so they did,” said the book. “no doubt of that. And everybody else.”

“That is true,” said the reader. “Push it a little further for this once. And when they were all dead?”

“They were in God’s hands, the same as before,” said the book.

“Not much to boast of, by your account,” cried the reader.

“Who is impious now?” said the book.

And the reader put him on the fire.

The coward crouches from the rod,
And loathes the iron face of God.

Ever penned a story so bizarre your document shivered? Nice! Dark Descent seeks microhorror—500 words tops, no fees, just a shot at chilling some spines.

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Everything around us in this digital century is unreliable and illogical – we can still build a life out of stories, says Joanna Kavenna:

https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/joanna-kavenna-reality-unreasonable-fiction

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A portrait of the writer Joanna Kavenna, with a quote from her blog: 'Poor Hamlet spends the rest of the play trying to deal reasonably with this entirely unreasonable situation'

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*In No Way Can The Preceding Information Be Confirmed Or Denied, And Is Merely An Astute Observation Of Public Information, Read And Utilize At Your Own Peril;

There are people who can do crossword, word search, and sudoku puzzles with extreme proficiency; The average person lacks the aptitude and comprehension to truly read what is before them;

For years Iran has perfected their drone technology, they have shipped tens of thousands of them all around the world since 2021, they have supplied cartels all around the world with them; Iran was actively producing weapons grade uranium, they were not producing it for ICBM's, or missiles, they had/have an end game to add it to their 1 million global drone hive, the idea was Hell Fire and Brimstone; You will not find this information laying on someone's coffee table, this information is "out there" but in fragmented pieces, like any puzzle you have to collect and know how to assemble it;

Back in February of 2026 the El Paso airport was shut down as the U.S. Military was eliminating a drone suspected from Mexican Drug Cartels; First you don't shut down an airport over an off the shelf hobby drone, or even a professional agriculture search and rescue or photography drone, and you certainly do not use the military to deal with it, you shut down an airport and use the military when your dealing with military hardware;

Operation Epic Fury is both about removing the regime in Iran and about disabling the control network of this massive drone hive, whether or not these drones currently have nuclear weapons on board, they pose a massive threat to the global community, Israel and America will deny any of this on any official level, for one simple reason, the amount of global chaos that will ensue if this either gets out or goes south;

The technology that is in the wild today is both amazing and horrifying, and for far to long countries, governments, companies and individuals have gotten powerful and wealthy off of inventing ways to destroy one another, and then have to invent new ways to defend against the very weapons they turn loose into the wild;

*What You Have Just Read, May Or May Not Be A Work Of Simulated Fiction Based On Very Real Life Current Events, In No Way Is This Proposing Or Portraying An Authoritative Narrative; It Is Merely An Assembly Of Randomized Possibilities Based On Current Realities;

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If your attention span now comes in "TikTok size" then I wrote sci-fi for you. Short - quiet - a little weird - and on sale. Start with one and bail anytime. https://inkican.com/smashwords-spring-scifi-sale/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-GSBCW-%7c-Smashwords #scifi #STEM #booksky #Bookstadon #shortstories #SFF

Started reading Johnny Compton's #ShortStory collection "Midnight Somewhere."
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Excited to digger deeper into this collection of #horror stories, especially after reading the weird "Ffuns."
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