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The Problem With Feelin' Flo-Jo's Glory Pose

ShortStory 6,686 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

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"You don’t go gettin’ police robots to chase you through the Westside because you want to have fun. But the excitement that Tariq felt at the thought of this challenge … He’d outrun actual cops. He’d outrun the wheeled robots they called “The Chris Browns” (on account of all the dancing they did in their promotional videos in the ’20s)."

DystopiaRacismMidwest USA

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FatherhoodSardonicSecond PersonCorporate PowerClass InequalityDefiantTenseFast PacedFreedomUrbanWryNear FutureSocial SFClose Third PersonVoice DrivenScience Fiction

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