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Jan E. Pat

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in Wilmington, Delaware, The United States

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https://riddlesisland.wordpress.com/

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Science Fiction, Fiction

Influences

Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley

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December 2021

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My pen name, Jan E. Pat, keeps me free from labels, expectations and prejudgment. In my crooked path through life, I've been a journalist and activist for the environment and criminal-legal-prison reform. I invested time in as a parent. The universal pronouns in “Riddles Island” demonstrate how we can evolve to non-binary humans and pronouns - E – for he and she, MER – for him and her, WAN - woman / man. The non-binary main characters in the book go beyond appearance, age, race, gender, income, education and sexuality. I’m a bit non-binary, from an egalitarian big family with few gender restrictions. I like sports – especially outdoor ones like skiing, tennis, bicycling, canoeing. The sports I enjoy give a hint about my economic privilege. ...more

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The myth of knowing everything

Like me, you probably regret decisions made a a teenager, based on lack of experience and knowledge, using a brain that didn’t fully mature until age 25. We thought we knew everything. I mean, we KNEW we knew everything. Then life kicked in and some of those poor decisions cast a shadow over the following decades.

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Coming Into the Country

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