Floodwall Magazine
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The creative writing scholarship committee had this to say on Jasmine Duran’s story “A Pretty Gamble”: “Equal parts Shirley Jackson and Black Mirror, Jasmine Duran’s ‘A Pretty Gamble’ casts an unflinching look at America’s harmful obsession with the beauty and cosmetics industries. Disarming in its candor and possessed of an eerie calm, this story’s narrative voice slowly awakens its reader to an unsettling realization about our consumer culture, in a way that only the best science fiction can. The story’s tone is comic yet grim, and we look forward to reading how Jasmine develops that voice in the years ahead.”
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Duran, Jasmine
(2021)
"A Pretty Gamble,"
Floodwall Magazine: Vol. 2
:
Iss.
1
, Article 4.
Available at:
https://commons.und.edu/floodwall-magazine/vol2/iss1/4
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