A companion to: Living in a world not of our own making
Thinking about how Abang Adik worked the death penalty into its plot made me reconsider how to write a piece of short fiction I've been trying to complete...
Hello, Iām Emily, and this is a newsletter about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a rapidly changing world & our personal and collective place in it.
This is a companion letter to How to live in a world not of our own making? It makes sense to read them together š
Hello again, dear readers.
For a long time, based on an exchange with someone I knew a long time ago, I wanted to write a short story that was, vaguely, about how someone could be so good in one way, and bad in another, and who got to see they were bad or good, and what that said about human relationships. I also had the idea that I would bring the death penalty to the story somehow, since I had reported on it myself as a journalist and could bring some perspective to bear.