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Critical Mass

ShortStory 6,728 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources

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"Leo Gregory is losing altitude. He coasts on the thermals of a legacy fading behind him: a documentary here, a retrospective there, some greatest-hits collection down in the corner for the dilettantes. Oh, the work has lost none of its grandeur: his buildings remain timeless, his objets d’art..."

Near FutureFatherhoodSlow Burn

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Art And CreationIntrospectiveConsciousnessUrbanWryLiterary SFContemplativeLiteraryClose Third PersonGrief And LossIdentityBittersweetCharacter DrivenScience Fiction

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illness-and-pandemic

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