Posts tagged: genre
i’ve been reading a book of award winning literary short stories and a book of kinda trashy post-apocalyptic speculative fiction short stories and guess which book displays more jaded contempt for humanity hint it’s not the one with all the nuclear fallout
#how do people survive without sci fi#i have no fucking idea#seriously all these lit shorts are so weirdly cruel and cold#people living and dying and loving each other and apparently that’s meaningless and absurd#all the great machinations and dreams of human beings and the lives they build with one another amount to nothing#meanwhile in the wasteland people are reinventing love#dancing in the acid rain and diving for the scrap metal prayers of a distant age#and learning over and over again how to live#those are stories worth reading#those are stories worth telling#sigh