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Continue reading →: Research: Precarious Women’s RightsPrompt: Another aspect of the female slavery in the Boudica and The Beast story is to explore the precarious nature of equal rights as a luxury of modern civilization. While as Marxists, today’s feminists push to overthrow the current system, they ignore the degraded condition of women historically in communist…
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Continue reading →: The Crazy ExI was formatting one of my draft short stories when I inadvertently added to my reading list. The working title is “The Crazy Ex.” Norah is stalking her ex boyfriend. She is deeply conflicted about whether she wants to marry him or hurt him. In the middle of the story,…
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Continue reading →: Research: Boudica and The Butcher as a Love StoryPrompt: Ultimately this story is about love. The Butcher cannot live without his wife, so he becomes death. He believes that more people will live if he destroys the population of Cleveland as the war will end sooner. He doesn’t expect to survive the war, so he expects to die…
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Continue reading →: Imagining CyrusIt was much easier to get a sample image out of AI for Cyrus, head of operations for The Butcher’s general staff. Cyrus was a defector from Iran’s chemical weapons program who went on to become a chemistry professor at a small fictional college in Pennsylvania. At the start of…
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Continue reading →: Research: The Butcher’s War PlansPrompt: Denied permission to target a rebel city with a nuke. The Butcher besieges Cleveland to employ the oldest weapons of mass destruction, famine and disease. He seeks to emulate Tamerlane by completely destroying the population of a city so no rebel city would dare to resist his army but…
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Continue reading →: Modern Maiden, Mother, and CroneRecently, I was formatting my draft of a story with a working title “Yottadere Roommate.” At the end of the drafting, I had the following hint note for editing: “Asher is a symbol for life. So, the story dramatizes a female alcohol abuser and her relationship with life. Thus, it…
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Continue reading →: Research: The Butcher’s SlavesOne of the things about The Butcher in Boudica and The Butcher is that he had been a normal guy who found himself living in a world turning into a horror. At the beginning of the story, to the reader he seems a manifestation of the horror. As the story…
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Continue reading →: Imagining Boudica
For the longest time, I had unsuccessful at a sample image of my character Boudica in Boudica and The Butcher. I knew that the AI would have trouble with such a character as she starts the story as a 17-year-old child soldier conscripted into the rebel army. I tried to…
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Continue reading →: Research: On Female BondageOne of the advantages of modern life in most of the world is that slavery does not exist. However, this is a historical anomaly. Therefore, to amp up the horror in Boudica and The Butcher, I thought that the enslavement of captured female rebels would be so shocking to contemporary…
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Continue reading →: Famine, Disease…Now Fire
I am pleased with myself for solving a problem with the siege of Pilgerruh in my _Boudica and The Butcher_ story. The Butcher lacks bombers, artillery, and tanks (politicians deployed such tools outside the civil war in part to defend international interests over ending the civil war quickly through decisive…
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I’m Jaycee
Currently, I am a drafter and plodding editor of my own fiction stories. Looking towards the future when edited stories turn into published ones.
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