Author name: Yair Halberstadt

Contra Aella on chattel childhoodAella has a post where she argues that today’s parents don’t sufficiently respect the independence of their children:Every culture throughout history has justified the abuse of treating their children as property by arg…

A pattern I’ve noticed among authors I enjoy is that their short stories are often very sedately paced, with a lot of descriptive prose and not much action. But their long stories are peppered with fast dynamic scenes and they avoid detailed descriptio…