Critical Mass
ShortStory 6,728 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"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..."
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illness-and-pandemic
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