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Café Life is the Colony's main hangout, watering hole and meeting point.
This is a place where you'll meet and make writing friends, and indulge in stratospherically-elevated wit or barometrically low humour.
Some Colonists pop in religiously every day before or after work. Others we see here less regularly, but all are equally welcome. Two important grounds rules…
We now allow political discussion, but strongly suggest it takes place in the Steam Room, which is a private sub-forum within Café Life. It’s only accessible to Full Members.
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This got me hot.
I agree, for us writers, but for our readers? They may be less jaded. For instance, in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, a world of ambisexual humans struggles to deal with the issues of our world while jumping from neuter to female or to male every month. In our world that we consider real, since it occupies our imaginations in that way, and we interpret gender identity and fluidity as political issues, we all struggle.It's our version of "dance like no one is watching."
--- Write like no one will read it.
Tasteful is for sissies.![]()
Erotica and lancing a boil? Right up my alleyOnce upon a time I wrote erotica. One story involved a boil on a 19th century character's buttock that needed to be lanced but they couldnt find anyone to do it. Until they did. The most successful story I wrote for that publication.