Lily Pendleton > Recent Status Updates

“It is really better to say frankly “I can’t imagine how it can be done” (which is a literal truth) than to confuse the mind with a picture of an enlarged man performing the impossible” God is not “ a harassed telephone operator answering callers at a switchboard of superhuman size”

“Those whose lives have been governed… from early childhood have never been allowed to develop their real selves. Forced to be “loving”, they have never actually learned how to love.” pg 29

“We were like Fleetwood Mac but without the sex, or drugs, or hair, or songs.” - on her first cover band Excuse 17

Homeless black man in 1950’s NYC reflecting on how he became invisible in society despite his potential, starting with his time as a student at the US’ first ever college for black men.

Short stories with a similar vibe to Octavia Butler’s revolutionary science fiction. Much more readable than Emergent Strategy lol