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All good stories are alike; each bad story is bad in its own way

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This is a continuation of Part 1, which I’ll be referencing throughout.

There’s a scene very close to the opening of Captain Marvel that perfectly encapsulates a lot of the movie’s problems. Immediately before, Vers wakes from a distu...

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To All The Girls I've Fridged Before

Spoilers ahead: The movies mentioned in the subtitle

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    Editor at Strange Horizons. Published in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Apex, Salamander, Tractor Beam, Grist, Massachusetts Review (etc). Author of Last Lynn Standing, a novel about evil celebrity clones, due out in 2028 from Grand Central Publishing.

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