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Our sixth story for the month of December 2022 issue 195 is titled Left to Die and is

by Vandana Singh.

Vandana Singh, who could be found at the website vandana-rights.com, is a writer of

speculative fiction and a professor of physics and environment at Framingham State University.

A small public institution near Boston.

Her critically acclaimed short stories have been reprinted in numerous best of year anthologies

and her collection, Ambiguity Machines and other stories by Small Beer Press and Zuban

2018.

It was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award.

Her most recent work is a short collection of essays and stories, utopias of the third

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