My Life as a Spirit

There were a few things that threw me off from enjoying this, but my main concern was the use of "retarded." I understand that this could be written off as contemporary character slang, but I felt like its current usage is jarring and in rather poor taste. There would be many other words that could have the same effect without carrying the heavy negative and rather triggering connotations associated.

Aside from that, the only other thing that was slightly off-putting was the insertion of a enraged dragon character who seems to be so easily swayed from their intense negative disposition towards an oppressive race that is actively destroying dragons and the planet's resources by a member of that same race. Especially since this exact idea is used to justify post-colonialism/imperialistic ideologies, it just doesn't seem rather convincing.

But the concept itself is a very powerful one when executed well, and the work here itself was well written. It would be great to bounce these stories off of other people and get their opinions on subject matter and different ways to explore concepts like this!