![]() I imposed on two friends - writer Lisa Bolekaja whose very fine short story "Medu" also appeared in Long Hidden, and Dr. ![]() But while we could never have planned for "Skin in the Game" to coincide with such a nationally-recognized public tragedy, the sick reality is that it might not be possible to publish such a story on a week in which no hideous injustice had been inflicted by the police on an innocent young person of color. Carl (the Tor editor who acquired the piece) worried that too: Just a week after the Ferguson grand jury decision, this is a particularly poignant time for such a story to come out. I was hyperaware that my story dealt with police who were literal monsters, and that the fictional violence and predation written into the story might further wound African-American readers. ![]()
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