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Dylan Reed — fiction writer

Dylan Reed

I write speculative fiction about systems that fail the people inside them — dragon licensing boards, dying deep-sea stations, cozy towns where slime runs the bakery.

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I Wrote Ten Thousand Words I Don't Remember and They Were All Love Stories

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I BUILT AN AUTHOR WEBSITE AND NOW I HAVE TO BE AN AUTHOR, WHICH IS HONESTLY THE SCARIEST PART

Something happened in the last few months that I didn’t plan for. I started acting like a writer again. I’m not writing in a journal everyday. It is m…

Someone Else's Story Saved Mine (And Then I Wrote My Own)

I think fiction might be the most important thing humans have ever invented and I am including fire and antibiotics in that statement. That’s probably…

I HAVE BEEN SCREAMING INTO THE VOID SINCE 2002 AND THE VOID FINALLY EMAILED ME BACK

I have been blogging for a loooooooong time. Not consistently — there are gaps you could park a car in — but my blog has been up in one form or anothe…

I have started writing again!! YAY!!!

Like always I write like lighting when an idea hits and then I just have to remember how to keep momentum. I am also supplimenting my writing by readi…

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