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R. Mac Jones

R. Mac Jones updates infrequently and provides links to things at rmacjoneswrote.com. His work has recently appeared in Strange Horizons, Right Hand Pointing, Liminality, and Dreams and Nightmares, among other places.

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Up-Up-Down-Left-Right

We choose a side-scroller because we see our lives together as linear, and we believe we both look better in profile. Thoughts download in lumps, jumbled, like a dream, and algorithms blend us and make a smooth narrative, and there we are, 8-bit, and they got your hair so wrong,…