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<p> When Winnie was thirteen, her settlement taught her how to fire a rifle. Her school practiced drills in case raiders came, and the town grew crops in their greenhouse-adapted homes, which were the only places warm enough during the worldwide nuclear winter. </p> <p> The Lakiran empire invades—a corporate-born nation overseen by their corporate-born queen, Victoria Paladino. They ride silent planes whose repulsion field veered bullets away. </p> <p> Three years of occupation later, an exemplar visits—a member of Victoria's oversight committee rumored to read minds. He tells Winnie that she may have a unique mental power, or a <em> flair </em> . At the empire's capital, the queen herself tutors Winnie to help her reach the full potential of whatever power she may have. </p> <p> Meanwhile, in post-war Nigeria, a streetwise teenager named Naema sees a different side of the empire. Between corruption and oppression, everyone lives in squaller. People fight over assembled food pastes. She too is told she has a unique flair, not by the empire, but by a fugitive woman who is the last vestige of an ancient witch coven, and she knows a dark secret about what the exemplars do to people like Winnie and Naema. </p> <p> <em> Updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The most recent chapters of <a href="https://glyphqueen.com/"> The Glyph Queen </a> are available on its main website. </em> </p>
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