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Hello and welcome to the Cool Zone Media Book Club, the only book club where you don't have to do the reading, because I do it for you.

And this week, the reading I'm doing for you is my own story.

That's right this week.

We're reading one of my stories because I wrote a piece over on my newsletter on Substack,

Margaretkilljoy.substack.com, and I wanted people to hear it. So I thought I'd read it to you.

Because it's a very book club type story. And I mean that both in the, it fits with Cool Zon Media, it fits with sort of the

original incarnation of it could happen here, but also it's the kind of story that I hope y'all

give a good thinking about, like in a book club. And what I have to say about this story is that I've been struggling to write down some of

my ideas about current events and preparedness through nonfiction.

Because nonfiction has never been how I get my grand ideas about what we can do as people

and how we can improve the world.

I've gotten those ideas from friends telling stories,

and I've gotten those ideas from reading narrative,

like memoir and fiction.

So I've been thinking about trying to write a series of vignettes about collapse,

and I don't know whether I'm going to weave this into some post-apocalyptic novel,

or turn these

things into zines or, you know, just run it as a kind of serial in my newsletter where this first

appeared, but we'll see.

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