Amethyst Wind organized a Fallout: Equestria book club on reddit. Today they're discussing my story "Twenty Minutes". Amethyst Wind asked me to answer some questions about it:

• What inspired you to write Twenty Minutes? How did it come about?
• Literature inspirations in general? Books/authors/articles/podcasts/etc
• What drew you to Fallout: Equestriain the first place?

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For 2 years, my story "Twenty Minutes" has had an uninviting picture of shackles for its art:

For his YouTube recording of it, Illya Leonov used this less-literal, more-evocative photograph:

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Found this in my inbox last Friday:

I mean no impertinence....

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Yesterday Equestria Daily unexpectedly published "20 Minutes", which they rejected about 2 years ago under the "No Fallout: Equestria fics" rule, which they repealed yesterday. I looked at the story's stats page to see how many people read it thru EQD, and saw I was getting referrals from a Russian site, which hosts a translation of it into Russian.

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