Back in 2007, I visited the City of Light for the first time during my honeymoon, and it did not disappoint. The photo below is from that trip almost twenty years ago, and even though the camera shook a little, I think it shook correctly. It still managed to capture all that glitter.

I don’t write scifi stories too often — in fact, this might be the only one. And of all the short fiction I have written, this is the one that got the briefest attention of Hollywood (millisecond). That plus the story itself awaits you.

As for my audio recommendation, I recently discovered the Literature and History Podcast. It’s been going on since 2016, so I’m very late to the game, but the beauty of a project like this is that it’s completely evergreen — after all, Doug Metzger’s podcast deals with classics like the Iliad and the Bible. Incredibly researched, superbly narrated (what a voice!), and hilariously sung (he writes a comic song for each episode), I’m not even on the 20th episode and can’t wait to get caught up.

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