Laurel

After mass protests, the President of Pakistan was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

Worldwide, hundreds of people – many rich and powerful – were arrested.

Billions in stolen assets were returned to the people.

And 82 countries changed their laws to crack down on the wealth hoarding the papers revealed.

(Source here)

To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.

Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.

"The Eyes Have It" – Philip K. Dick – 1,081 words

"The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" – John Chu – 6,598 words

"The Tell-Tale Heart"  - Edgar Allan Poe  - 2,155 words

"The Faery Handbag" – Kelly Link – 8,080 words

2nd Person – The Most intimate POV. Great for building empathy and/or playing with the reader’s agency (excellent for horror or blurring lines of reality)

“Down to a Sunless Sea” – Neil Gaiman – 1,125 words

“Girl” – Jamaica Kinkaid – 686 words*

“Reality Check” – David Brin – 1,239 words

“The Night” – Ray Bradbury – 2,854 words**

*This one does a fun trick with POV. See if you can catch it.

**link also contains another short story ‘Homecoming’

and for great 1st person non traditionally published fiction (because a part of me always feels obliged to defend "low brow" avenues like r/nosleep):

like, just. queer coding is when the creator adds elements to a character, such as mannerisms or clothing choices, to imply to the audience the character is queer without outright saying so. sometimes it's to get around censorship & sometimes it's to be homophobic and/or transphobic

if two characters' dynamic is "sibling coded" then that is an intentional choice by the creator. but also that doesn't actually hold up, conceptually, because there isn't a handy set of cultural touchstones for what a sibling dynamic looks like. and there's far less reason to imply that rather than outright state it. the same with "minor coded". what makes queer coding possible isn't that 'queer' is a descriptive term, it's that queer people have a defined culture and non-queer people have defined stereotypes. this is not true of every possible descriptive term.