Undercover in the Apocalypse

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Sam J. Miller sends stories & writing insights...

...to covert operatives like you, trying to stay creative and hopeful in grim times.

Writing Exercise: Translating History

A taxidermied baby alligator on top of a row of very old books.

I'm learning so much from this book I don't like.

Microfiction: Scopaesthesia

Sculptures of shrouded figures in the ruins of a defunct church. [Taken at the Kostel Svatého Jiří]

The writing school in the ruins.

Mural on the front wall of a Mesoamerican building - a coiled winged serpent with five human figures on and around it.

Microfiction: wow Death is hot.

protest signs: NOT FUCKING EVER AGAIN / FIGHT NAZIS / BIGOTRY AND CLIMATE CHANGE KILL EVERYONE

Who are you doing this for?