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R.S.A. Garcia

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R.S.A. is a Nebula and Sturgeon Award winning writer of speculative fiction. She is also the winner of the Machine Intelligence Foundation for Rights and Ethics' 2023 Media Award, and a Locus, Ignyte and Eugie Foster Award finalist.

Her Amazon Bestselling science fiction mystery, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Silver Medal for Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook from the Independent Publishers Awards (2015).

She has published short fiction in venues such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, The Sunday Morning Transport, and Internazionale Magazine. Her stories have been long-listed for the British Science Fiction Awards, translated into several languages, and included
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Thanks for the question. Yes! I plan to do four books and am nearing the end of writing book 2 now. …more
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R.S.A. Garcia I chip at it with a chisel until it goes away.

Okay, seriously? I let myself rest for a while. A block for me is an indication my brain wants some pla…more
I chip at it with a chisel until it goes away.

Okay, seriously? I let myself rest for a while. A block for me is an indication my brain wants some planning time. The hard part is getting restarted, but I try as much as possible to set a 'get back to work' date and stick to it. Nowadays, I tell myself I'll do three lines and that's it.

You can do three lines, regardless of block, right?

She came. She saw. She conquered.

See? Three lines. Sometimes I can only manage that. But most times I end up breaking the block--because once you start, it's hard to stop--and I actually write more than the three lines.

Or I'll spend the time re-writing them so they have more than six words and something to to do with the actual story I'm writing. Whichever way you go, you've written and you've broken your block and you're now free to booze up on the bottle of wine you have chilling in the fridge.

And if you do have an actual bottle in the fridge, feel free send me a virtual glass. This breaking up blocks thing is thirsty work.(less)
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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
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“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost
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“Death is the breath between one Life and the Next.
—Message of the Will
Book of the Seven Holies
Ancient Dak Scripture”
R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“He wanted to be inside, away from the possibility of social contact. He was not entirely comfortable out here. Getting too close to the everyday dance of the world overloaded his acute senses in a way that he could not explain to anyone. So he did not try. He simply kept to himself and lived his life in a way that would ease his discomfort as much as possible. He no longer cared what others thought of his ways; the few friends he had understood him. Everything else was unimportant. Except his job. The one thing he could excel at just by being himself.”
R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“Violence begets violence and every Harvest delivers more death to the Harvested.

- The Anchorite Wakes, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143”
R.S.A. Garcia, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143, August 2018

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