Fighting Words: Notes for a Future We Won't Have

Fact-driven speculative fiction.

What could've been. What should've been.

A collection of 18 stand-alone, but related, pieces: Damages, Home for Unwed Fathers, Fighting Words, Comedown, What Sane Man, Sweet Sixteen, Ballsy, Justified, It's a Boy, Men Need Sex, How We Survived, The Knitting Group, The Mars Colonies, A PostTrans PostPandemic World, Unless, Alleviation, The Women's Party, My Last Year

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"[A] brain-slap of speculative fiction ... 18 stand-alone grenades disguised as stories ..." Reid Winslet

"Just reading ['What Sane Man'] was satisfying." Anonymous, Ovarit

"['Men Need Sex'] is terrific!" An ovarite from Ovarit

"OMG, I love it ['Ballsy']!" Amareldys, Ovarit

"If you read this and it doesn't get you thinking, pondering the issues that it illustrates, and recognizing some of the problems it is illuminating, then I don't want to say you might be a big part of the problem, but …"  5/5 Big Al's Books and Pals

"Readers who love the speculative social commentary of Margaret Atwood, the sharp edged fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, and the unflinching explorations of gender and power of Naomi Alderman will find in Fighting Words a collection that is satisfying, terrific, and thought provoking."  Jessica Irena Smith