Tenth of December

Reading these stories was a bit of an exercise in empathy. They begged me to find something redeemable in characters that on summarization would be easy to write off as unlikable. I appreciated how most stories avoided a neat resolution, and the way speculative elements appeared naturally instead of being explicitly announced. In that way, it seemed more technologically literate than most modern writing (even in science fiction). Where technology, both modern and near future inventions, seep into daily life naturally rather than remaining a tool that is clearly external and divorced from interior experience.