Author: Emma Alvarez Gibson

3-Point Plan to Defy the Global Enshittification Tomorrow we enter what a friend of mine called “the dumbest timeline.” I’ve been waking up each day this week with a little more anxiety, a little more sludge in my system. And I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough free-range, extended-remix despair over the past…… Continue reading 3-Point Plan to Defy the Global Enshittification

Bring it on Home

Marching Orders

With Ananda in This Fateful Hour The year that I was nine, I found a book in my classroom that changed me forever. It wasn’t the first book to do that, but it was the first I’d read that featured cataclysmic events on a global — indeed, intergalactic — scale, intertwined with time travel (a…… Continue reading With Ananda in This Fateful Hour

A Secret Setting Some years rain a fiery wreckage down:artifacts of war, both real and imagined. Scenes of violence from previous lives; flashes of unknown, treacherous lands. Snippets of sky and mud.Other years are differently charged,with their birdsong and sunshine,lush lovers and endless light,memories of warm meals and laughter,of welcoming arms and sturdy chairs,of warm…… Continue reading A Secret Setting