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<blockquote>“The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” by Usman T. Malik is a fantasy novella about a disenchanted young Pakistani professor who grew up and lives in the United States, but is haunted by the magical, mystical tales his grandfather told him of a princess and a Jinn who lived in Lahore when the grandfather was a boy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An epistolary romance novella set in 1920s London among lesser specimens of the Bloomsbury genus. Young writer Jade Yeo is about to find out what a lot of trouble a negative review can cause.<blockquote>

accessible via the wayback machine. ➤ the one where the aliens come to earth and just don't...do anything, don't react to anything, despite what people try. ➤ And then all of a sudden they do: take a seat at the line "all seated on the ground" from the muzak playing at a mall at christmas time, and everyone's trying to figure out WHY and WHAT CHANGED and stuff. ➤ And there's parallels with the pov character's aunt judith's judgy face, and a rather adorable developing romance between the pov character and the choir director dude. ➤ And basically it's just a great story all-round and I love it.