I haven't been on deviantART in ages - more than a year and a day - but when I logged in today, I saw a horde of comments on my two stories. It's sort of heartwarming to see that people are still reading (and re-reading, apparently!) the stories I wrote freshman year. I'm about to graduate now, and in four years at Vassar, I don't think I've written anything that tops those ... nothing in science fiction, anyway, and the "non-genre" pieces I've written for class aren't anything to write home about. I mean, come on: for a certain branch of serious social commentary, you need speculative fiction. (I did write one scifi story where the science i