Welcome to Litsy!

I did the slightly lopsided book & beer thing this afternoon and now I have MANY EMOTIONS about the tagged story from Reactor‘s Jan/Feb output. Lately, I‘ve read an awful lot of longer stories that didn‘t earn their length. This one absolutely did.

The beer is great, too—and yeah, I‘m shocked I‘m saying that about an IPA. Strong flavour on all fronts. I‘m impressed.

“Imagine human culture as a tree and the human zeitgeist spreading outward like myriad branches. If you live in the trunk, the place of physical closeness and solidarity, you feel solid and grounded—but maybe also trapped. Move out toward the branch-tips of virtual experience and you have more and more freedom but less and less connection with neighboring branches. In-person loneliness is a direct consequence of this digital flourishing.“