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    • Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)
    • The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)
    • Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)
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  • The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye

    Dramatic, Determined, Makes Terrible Life Choices, Yet Shows Up The Next Day Like Nothing Happened — Sri Lankan Teen Who Dropped Novel Before Her Prefrontal Cortex Finished Loading on Why Her Ride-or-Die is Tom from Tom and Jerry (Not Donald Lame Duck)

    5 November 2026

    SK: If a detective looked at your browser tabs right now, would they arrest you, call an exorcist, or buy you a weighted blanket? FF: They’d buy me the blanket, interrogate me, then quietly close the tabs and pretend they never saw them. When you’re stuck on a scene, grappling for a metaphorical weapon, do you precision-strike like a sniper, or spray and pray like Trump? Precision-strike. I’ll stare down one sentence until it gasps for air and convince myself that swapping one adjective will fix my entire broken plot. What’s a word you’ve used in a draft that you…

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    I build the architecture, place the doors, decide who enters, and know roughly where everyone should end up. Then the characters discover the plan, form a union, and refuse to cooperate. I call the wreckage organic storytelling.

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    Some of my books are set in Russia. I needed to come up with a lot of Russian names so I basically just plundered Dostoevsky.

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    Egregious shouldn’t be seen in public with any qualifiers such as that two-timing gigolo “very.”

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