Seven Sisters
As hard times and broken bots threaten a collective tea farm, the women keeping it going must decide whether to add another to their ranks.
Seven Sisters took 3rd place in Grist's Imagine 2100 contest and is one of their Best Audio picks. It was subsequently published as part of the Metamorphosis anthology, selected to be in the 2022 Best of Utopian Fiction collection, translated into German, and published in the bilingual Spanish/English magazine Beyond Dimensions.
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Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales
The thing the machines consume is us.
Ready to lease out your mind? Or pay for your next meal with involuntary ads?
The Closet Full of Time collection contains five short stories that speak to that sinking feeling that we're serving the machines instead of the other way around. That our inventions are taking things we can’t afford to lose.
- Welcome to the Mindshare Program
- How to Treat Your Algorithm
- Indexed
- The Everything Machine
- Closet Full of Time
If you think AI should liberate us from folding laundry, not make our art, these stories are for you.
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Slimy Things Did Crawl
SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible.
Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
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Tower Girls
SHORT STORY: A cute technician keeps breaking things in her too-shiny lab, then calling a fixer in for repairs. Zita’s a certified member of the International Guild of Repair Workers, Local 772, and she’s certain this hot girl is breaking her toys on purpose. But why? Something very sexy but very weird is going on…
Tower Girls is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
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Planting the Shell-Bones
SHORT STORY: Living in a flooded lighthouse is probably illegal, but no one has come to kick her out, so she keeps furtively tending the oyster beds and feeding the crows. But when a storm brings an unexpected—and unwelcome—visitor, her time in this final refuge might be at an end.
Planting the Shell-Bones is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
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Tombs Without Bodies
SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the "greenbelt," but a young woman’s curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught.
Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
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The Day We Stopped Burning
SHORT STORY: A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift.
The Day We Stopped Burning is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
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I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest
SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree.
I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
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Halfway to Better (Collection)
Halfway to Better is a collection of short solarpunk stories, each exploring a near-future world where we’re struggling to survive the climate crisis and build a better world.
The Halfway to Better collection contains six short stories plus a bonus prose-poem, Rewilding Indiana, and its accompanying sky shanty.
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