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Isabel J. Kim lives near New York City in an apartment filled with books and swords. She is the author of numerous short stories and has won the Nebula, Locus, BSFA and the Shirley Jackson Awards. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and reprinted in multiple best of the year anthologies. When she’s not writing, she’s practicing law or podcasting. Find her at isabel.kim, @isabel.kim on Bluesky, or @isabeljkim on instagram.

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Why Don't We Just Kill The Kid in the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
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do you ever write something and then things get wildly out of hand? anyway.
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i had to read this book a million times during the publishing process and i still think i did a pretty good job at putting words in front of each other in some sort of meaningful order. someday i will write a better book than this (hubris, to assume ...more
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“Artificial or not, the knowledge of existing borders delineates the world. They are a social technology that creates emotional reality, that creates physical reality.”
― Isabel J. Kim, Sublimation
tags: borders, immigration
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“Every hurt is the worst hurt when you haven’t been hurt before.”
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