The Indypendent
Fiction
Fiction: Be Careful What You Wish For: A Short, Sad Pandemic Story
They tell me it’ll kill me, but they won’t say when. —“Cocaine Blues,” as sung by Dave Van Ronk…
It was almost 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and I was standing on the corner of Essex and…
Superb Humanity: A Christmas Fairytale
Everyone saw something different in the stain, but everyone agreed there was something there. Ms. Nancy, who was always…
Future History: Women’s Revolt Sparks Global Revolution
Excerpts from the 2117 high school history textbook “Then, Now and How” obtained by The Future Historians: ……
The sun beats off the concrete, rests on bright green lawns and tans the delicate skin of the Southern…
Dystopian themes abound in popular culture. In a world wracked by climate change, war, mass migration and a growing gulf between the super-rich and everyone else, imagining the worst has become its own industry. But what might it feel like to live and work in a future society that has begun to heal a damaged planet even as people continue to be their messy, imperfect selves?