RENT FREE – PART THREE: GANGSTER

(PART TWO: ASSASSIN) Smoking in the haze of a Waisheng dump; the club’s name was JET OFF. Old junkyard in the midst of their side of town, near Prosperity Plaza where it all stank of old machine parts and rust, where once the great ships that had threaded together astro-socialism were hewn from material into...

RENT FREE – PART ONE: INVADER

Something was within her perimeter. The scanner beeped; a chirpy tune of six notes that meant there had been movement detected in the area covered by the sensors all around what she and no one else called the office, which was actually a metal prefab outpost for security men from the mines on the road...

GET OVER HERE! – Orientalism in a Good Way and a Bad Way, or, Scorpion from Mortal Kombat vs. Cho Chang from Harry Potter

I want to deal with something uncomfortable today. There’s a character in Harry Potter called ‘Cho Chang’, did you know? You probably did. Cho Chang is pretty infamous. Cho Chang, you see, is Harry’s love interest in one book, a weepy and selfish but beautiful Asian girl who Harry later dumps so he can fuck...