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  • Marriage Portion

    Well, Honoria Fu wasn’t just any gal, but none of these signed up for New Paradise in the first place. She was our first Senior Agriculturalist, with a triple vote share on top of her standard stake, and the final word on experiment plot allocation. If you wanted to try that new millet variety this…

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  • New Paradise

    I found (can’t remember how) Suno in April 2024 and it took me this long. Here’s a filk song with lyrics I wrote. [Verse 1]They sold us calm rivers and black fertile soilRich harvests, abundance without the toil.We packed up our lives, we paid our passage price,And cast off for the promise of New Paradise.…

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  • Dream poem

    Once, in my teens or early twenties, I read a long epic poem in a dream. I still remember finishing the last line, admiring the illuminated first letter of it once more in the slanting afternoon light and looking up to a tall room (round or octagonal), lined floor to ceiling with book shelves of…

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