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Fiction & Persuasion

About the Substack

A test lab for writing - & sometimes thinking - bridging the gap between fiction, communications, and culture. Come for the self-humiliation, stay for the accidental insight.

About M.J. Hines

Prize-winning short story writer, author of a novel about artificial consciousness, and creative strategist. “Specialisation is for insects”.

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