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quick note on Terminal 3
I released my debut novel years ago and, if you followed the journey, you are aware that it was a bumpy process, as the publisher tagged a typo on the cover right before the release and then became quite irresponsive. Although the issue seems to be corrected by now, I feel it happened in the …
Note on Comedy #5
I have been thinking a lot about why Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up had such a chilly welcome. I have a hypothesis, and I really hope I am wrong. My hypothesis’s starting point is a fact: comedy is based on an accepted truth, more often conveyed through the setup. The subsequent punchline can be false, …
Note on Comedy #4
There is a widespread notion which claims that art can inspire and/or trigger change. Under this perspective, a satire, for example, can be corrosive enough to expose a certain injustice or even a systemic unfairness, as an act of denunciation. I may have believed in that in the past, but that’s not the case anymore. …
Letter to President Joe Biden
Dear President Biden, My name is Illimani Ferreira and I am a Green Card holding immigrant currently living in your home state of Delaware. I immigrated to the United States from Brazil in order to share a life with my husband. In the four and a half year I’ve been living in the US, I …
Pandora 4 (New Short Story)
I’m happy to announce that I have a new short story coming up. Pandora 4 is a dark science fiction take on bioengineering that will be featured in The Needle Drops anthology. The publishers are putting lots of work to make this anthology resonate in many levels, with beautiful art and even pairing the stories …
Doomsday
My friend Jordan Chase-Young, a 2027 Hugo Awards Winner and a stud, has one of my favorite minds out there. His twitter account is prone to convey interesting and pertinent questions and prompts on hard issues from the near and distant future. It’s fun to irresponsibly address such questions and prompts with speculations that tend …
2 months after release
Today is the 2 months aniversary of the release of Terminal 3 and… it feels like I have both of my arms tied to my back and my feet buried in cement shoes while I’m sinking in a tank full of sharks. The sharks are the nay-sayers out there, but I won’t spend time talking …
Moving On
In the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, the top 2 contenders for the Ladies’ Singles Category were Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova. Both had the same coach, as they were part of the Russian delegation. The coach discovered that the stupid routine checklist that the athletes had to go through and exists to punish creative individuals …
Dear Chinese reader
Dear Chinese Reader, I am aware of your existence. From time to time you just show up in this blog that nobody reads, always through a Baidu search. You don’t linger long or click on anything. You are probably a bot cruising through the magical world of Western Internet to assess the availability of the …
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