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		<title>Ascension</title>
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			<title>Matt says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-858</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Which is the precise weblog for anybody who desires to discover out about this subject. You recognize a lot its nearly laborious to argue with you. You undoubtedly set a brand new spin on a topic that's been published about for many years. Excellent things, just great. Matt]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:48:04 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Matt Moore says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-665</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks, Lydia. I had some doubts about the length of this piece - can a story really be 700 words? But I couldn't find any place to bulk it up. And the notes from the editors here at AE actually cut about 15 words or so - all the right words to cut - to trim it further. I've come to think of it as about 90 seconds of the most intense moments of this person's life... until they pass into something that's more than life. Glad you liked the story.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Matt Moore</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:35:21 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Lydia Peever says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-664</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This story is thoroughly enjoyable and nearly has the cadence of poetry. At such a shot word count, I was unprepared for the richness, the humanity and - well - the gore! Wonderful stuff, Matt.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Lydia Peever</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:17:57 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Stephen Lowe says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-420</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll definitely check it out!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Stephen Lowe</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:07:19 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Matt Moore says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-419</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Stephen - Thanks for the great comment. Give MONSTER ISLAND by David Wellington a read for another take on group consciousness and zombie awareness, if you haven't already.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Matt Moore</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:45:00 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Stephen Lowe says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-418</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dear Matt! Thanks for posting this short story which I found quite enjoyable! I'm as of the last 5 years become something of a zombie aficionado and that's been bumped up in the last three to high gear. I have stories I want to explore and to tell. The short of it is I've been watching and reading everything I can about zombies and how write zombies! Your short story is great taking a perspective that needs to be explored, and one I too plan to explore. I've only seen this perspective tackled one other time in Stephen King's "Cell". The idea of the communal mind and the joining of a collective is great and one I appreciate greatly. I hope you will continue to explore this idea. I found that this is one of the aspects of Stephen King's book that bumps zombies from scary to terrifying. In the predominant literature and movie scene, we are shown zombies as unthinking, endlessly hungry unthinking things. The idea that they are driven to do the things by an idea, a motivation moved them into that realm of terror, and the thought that those thought processes can evolve as King portrays them is even more scary. In another book i've read called "Rise Again", though we never get into the zombies heads we can see them evolving in thought process as the book progresses. It's a new take that is emerging and one worthy of exploration. Your story is a winner. I love your exploration of the victim's conscious thought being dominated by a foreign one and being unable to stop it from taking over, but likewise capable of moments of resistance as it struggles for control. You can see the merging of those consciousnesses, an exciting idea. You have taken the idea of the microcosm in the macrocosm and applied it to this genre. You've taken the outward struggle of mankind overrun to potential defeat, symbolic of an internal battle and have shown us that idea ported exactly as what it is. I'd be interested and look forward to another longer short story or novella that would take this to the next level. Best wishes and good luck, Stephen]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Stephen Lowe</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:04:44 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Shona says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-414</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Great story! I really enjoyed it, so write more! I can probably procure a bucket of scotch somewhere...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Shona</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:58:25 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Marie Bilodeau says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-413</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Awesome story, Matt. I'm always impressed by the twists and humanity in your stories, and I love watching your style mutate and grow, too! Thanks for sharing this piece!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Marie Bilodeau</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:21:49 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Chuck Yocum says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-409</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Very cool!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Chuck Yocum</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:52:27 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Matt Moore says:</title>
			<link>http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/714-ascension#comment-408</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks, Michael. Glad you enjoyed it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Matt Moore</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:32:44 --500</pubDate>
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