Book Review: Axiom

This was my latest read while cooped up inside during the east coast blizzard – R.M. Pearcy’s Axiom. In this first installment, Earth has been ravaged by biological warfare, and the Founders of old have constructed Axiom – a great, gleaming city on Earth’s moon. And in this dystopian, sci-fi future, seventeen-year-old Ella Bower is …

“…so in Agwotown, people didn’t fear the dangerous roads…

…or the armed robbers, or losing their entire bank accounts to a 419 scammer. People feared snakes. And Ozioma could speak to them.” –Ozioma the Wicked, by Nnedi Okorafor Kick-ass short story of a girl who uses her powers to stare down death and save the town? Yes, please. Found in the collection Unnatural Creatures

Reblog if you love to write.

almost-exciting: Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together. Yes! I am madly in love with words, and I don’t see the affair ending anytime soon! 😀

You are already doing so well!

Thanks, Matthew. I need to hear this, sometimes. The greatest regret I have is that, early in my career, I showed myself such cruelty for not having accomplished anything significant. I spent so much time trying to write, but was paralyzed by how behind I felt. Many years later I realized that if I had …