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Robert Wintner

Robert Wintner’s novels and short fiction are literary with a fresh twist, not highbrow but entertaining, often wicked, ironic and insightful. Though literature in the U.S. has struggled against a few currents in recent decades, it endures in the classic vein among a few notable authors, and Robert Wintner is among them…

Critical Mass

critical mass kridək(ə) mas noun
1Physicsthe minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction.
Critical mass may be a minimum for chain reaction or a maximum for stability. Either way, things go off. Collective consciousness and common behaviors accelerate in chaos.
Subtle change builds to drastic consequence. Mass media covers hateful simpletons gaining market share on slap diddle, shouting lies on fire. Road rage is self-expression. Stress compresses, on the way to another big bang.