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citizenkeentoday at 3:54 AM1 replyview on HN

Because I’m surprised to see Shirley Jackson on the front page, and maybe someone else will get a smile:

Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death -https://archiveofourown.org/works/73396436?view_adult=true


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phlummoxtoday at 4:50 AM

Hahaha, that's awesome. A nice adjunct to "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" [1] (to take another example of a riff on a classic speculative fiction piece, that exposes the concepts to modern sensibilities).

[1] https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/