This is the Standard version of 'Applied Linguistics' by Terence MacManus. Although the entire story is contained here, this version does not include the author's reflection at the end of the piece which talks about the interesting challenges of re-building the world around Cassandra for this prequel.


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The original story set in the Empire of Blood, The Marred Queen was first published by Aurealis magazine in April 2018 (issue #109). The audiobook recoding of this story features as the third episode of this podcast.


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