“Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”

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2024
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In the story the child in the city of Omelas from LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas” (1973) is killed and city collapses. Another child is put in the “hole,” killed, the city collapses, and this is repeated over at least one generation.

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no. 209
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February 2024

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2024 Kim, Isabel J. “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole.” Clarkesworld, no. 209 (February 2024). https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/ Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_24e/

In the story the child in the city of Omelas from LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas” (1973) is killed and city collapses. Another child is put in the “hole,” killed, the city collapses, and this is repeated over at least one generation. The Korean American female author is a lawyer with degrees in Creative Writing, Fine Arts, and Law from the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Korean American female author is a lawyer with degrees in Creative Writing, Fine Arts, and Law from the University of Pennsylvania.