Fiction with a social conscience

I write popular fiction because the opposite, as Bryce Courtenay observed, is unpopular fiction.
— Riley Chance

Weeping Angels

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This month’s aphorism

Aphorisms are short sayings that (might) contain a general truth - Friedrich Nietzsche loved them. This isn’t one of mine (mine are here), but it makes you pause.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
— Francis M. Wilhoit