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Writer’s Wednesday and Bringing Amazon Trolls to Justice on National Wormhole Day

Nutschell is featuring me for her Wednesday Writer’s Workspace today, and I’m not a little alarmed that I’ve sent her a pic of my workspace! I also dole out writing advice and such, in the feature (heaven forgive me!). Please go say a kind word so I don’t utterly embarrass myself.
 
On a brighter note, today is on Einstein’s birthday, and Stephen Tremp, Laura Eno, and LG Smith are hosting the National Wormhole Day Blogfest. They want us to answer a simple question:

What would you do or where would you go if you could traverse a wormhole through space or time just once? Tell us in as little as 100 words what
you would do with your round-trip wormhole ticket. Or use your entire
post. It’s up to you!

If I could go through a wormhole, I wouldn’t just go through one. I shall be an Amazon Troll-hunting superhero, traveling through space and time to find the obnoxious folks who write 1-star Amazon reviews and the ones who pay to get them written.

Writers being carpet-bombed shall send out a distress signal the moment they spot an incoming troll review, and I shall fly at supersonic speeds to catch the cash-strapped, morally bankrupt, hapless troll; the evil, unfortunate, review mill owner; and the scheming little rat who paid for it all, and expose each of them in turn for who they are.

Sound good? If I indeed get said superpowers some day, I’ll need a cool-sounding name, a latex uniform, and a lot of back-story as to how I got said powers. I need suggestions  in the comments!

(I see a few incredulous folks in the comments about the existence of fake reviews. Read this, please.)
  
 

Damyanti Biswas

Damyanti Biswas is the author of You Beneath Your Skin and numerous short stories that have been published in magazines and anthologies in the US, the UK, and Asia. She has been shortlisted for Best Small Fictions and Bath Novel Awards and is co-editor of the Forge Literary Magazine. Her literary crime thriller series, the Blue Mumbai, is represented by Lucienne Diver from The Knight Agency. Both The Blue Bar and The Blue Monsoon were published in 2023.

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