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Sean Benham

Smashwords Interview

Congratulations on your story M/F/P Circle One being part of the Collidor project, which is published by Reality Skimming Press. What was your inspiration for the story?
I wish this story had an exciting Genesis, but to the best of my recollection the idea of writing about the creation of a third sex just came to me one night while I was out walking my dog. It seemed like a good angle for an overreaching bureaucracy story, so I ran with it.
What made you think of a third sex as an intermediary between male and female?
I wanted to keep the third sex as a reproductive necessity, as opposed to a pleasure and desire-based ‘flight of fancy’ creation. The pollinators had to be humanity’s Hail Mary pass, a last ditch attempt to try and maintain some kind of baby-making normalcy - even though it was clear that things could never be the same as they once were. They’re a selfish creation, a poorly treated subset. Their self-identification and sexual preference take a definite backseat to their service to ‘regular’ men and women.
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SF is an arena where ideas collide. The Collidor series features authors who came together to take part in an experiment combining very different stories through the illustrations of artist Jeff Doten and commentaries connecting them to resonances in the world. Because every reading experience is a collision of author and reader. Of individual innovation and traditions of literature. Of subject matter and history. Initially web-published with commentaries, the series will be collected into a print anthlogy as the first example of the web-to-print production model by Reality Skimming Press.
Lost: Cat
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When Stars Wept
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Illegal Mind
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Shroud
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M/F/P Circle One
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These Eyes
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Books

M/F/P Circle One by
Series: Collidor. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,840. Language: English. Published: June 7, 2016 by Reality Skimming Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
After a powerful STD turns sexual activity into a certain death sentence, humanity creates a third sex to combat the reproductive crisis, inadvertently creating an outcast sexual underclass in the process. Two couples on opposite sides of the schism between tradition and necessity struggle to have a child in a world where no one is making babies the old-fashioned way.

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