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I'm a speculative fiction writer living in Chicago.
A long time ago, I was a newspaper reporter on the health and medical beat. Now, I'm an editor and communications director for a large medical school. I am a Prairie Band Potawatomi.
Author Archives: Kevin Wabaunsee
Trusted Messenger, Postmortem
This post has some spoilers for my short story “Trusted Messenger.” If you haven’t read it, check it out — I think it’s pretty neat. It’s been a week since Escape Pod published my story “Trusted Messenger,” and one of the … Continue reading
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Trusted Messenger
My short story “Trusted Messenger” has just been published by Escape Pod, the premier audio science fiction podcast. It’s my first professional science fiction sale, and it’s a thrilling experience to hear my story read aloud by narrator Phillip Lanos. “Trusted Messenger” … Continue reading
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Man-Eating Tigers Through the Ages
With so few tigers still in the wild, it’s easy to forget that for a long time, humans came into bloody conflict wherever tigers could be found. And the human body count was surprisingly high. Continue reading
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Lincoln Park: Chock-Full of Decaying Corpses
One of my favorite things about living in Chicago is Lincoln Park. More than 50 percent larger by area than New York’s Central Park, Lincoln Park is truly is a marvel. It spans seven miles along Chicago’s Lake Superior shoreline, … Continue reading
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Good news: the rabbit’s dead!
You’re tellin’ other things, but your girlfriend lied You can’t catch me ’cause the rabbit done died. The lyrics above (from Aerosmith’s 1975 single “Sweet Emotion”) may seem pretty obscure to modern audiences, but they actually refer to the Aschheim-Zondek … Continue reading
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Google Maps, Burakumin and the shrinking planet
At first, the AP article on Google Maps seemed like the garden-variety handwringing that happens whenever Google Maps rolls out street view photography in a new location (neighbors complain about invasion of privacy, etc). But it turns out, there was much … Continue reading
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Sea-Monkeys: A bowlful of happiness
Ah, the joyous miracle of life. I’m referring, of course, to the miracle of Sea Monkey life. For millions of children, the first experience with playing god began with an advertisement in the back of a comic book, and ended … Continue reading
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Arr, you Vitamin-C-deficient scallywag!
Growing up, my mother always exhorted us to eat our fruits and vegetables, or else we’d get Scurvy. Being an elementary-schooler, I didn’t know that Scurvy was, in fact, a dietary deficiency in Vitamin C. Actually, the sum total of … Continue reading
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Mayhem in McDonaldland!
Early McDonaldland was a freaky place. Originally a transparent rip-off of Sid and Marty Kroft’s H.R. Pufnstuf program, the mythical McDonald’s realm was filled with anthropomorphized fast food products, volcanoes spewing milkshakes, and a recurring cast of villains attempting to … Continue reading
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2112, Rush’s Prog-Rock Sci-Fi Opera
When I was a high schooler, I took a summer class from a wild-eyed, and equally wild-haired guy on the topic of dystopian literature in science fiction. (Nerd. Guilty as charged.) The class was great, and introduced me to tons … Continue reading
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Kevin Wabaunsee 