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Karena's avatar

Wait - I was jumping up and down in excitement till I read @christin Chong's message below.

I think you deserve to be on MENTA! (I'm catching up to the fiction!)

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Vicky Zhao's avatar

🫣 haha I think MENTA might send you an invite too. Check for self-destructing notes in your inbox!

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Fan's avatar

Amazing Vicky!! I'm nominating you for next year's Hugo short story 👀😂

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Vicky Zhao's avatar

Haha honoured 🤓 I’ll have to put my framework book on hold at this rate 😂

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Christin Chong, PhD's avatar

i was confused for a second before realizing it's fiction :P what a mystery!!

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Vicky Zhao's avatar

lol I got confused as I wrote it on my flight .. almost felt like a lucid dream

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Christin Chong, PhD's avatar

ahh yaaa i know that flight lucid dream feeling

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

This is great, Vicky! Welcome to fictionland (or autofictionland). I hope this bit is the first episode of a long series, as there's a lot to be built upon this gorgeous beginning. You'll see that things will come, you don't have to plan too much of a plot beforehand. And thank you so much for mentioning my work on here -- so humbled by your super nice words!

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Vicky Zhao's avatar

Thank you for your inspiration!!

Will definitely keep exploring - very liberating!

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Chao Lam's avatar

But you are a flaneur irl, right? 🤣

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Vicky Zhao's avatar

🫢 what is a flaneur anyway?!

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