By Kimberly Jackson It’s 2024, gated communities are under siege, armed guards patrol the high-walled gates keeping out the poor, foreign, sick, and starving. The wealth inequality has widened along with climate-fueled fires, water is scarce, the police are privatized and rarely come unless you are wealthy, and social fragmentation Read more
By Ember Richardson The news cycle is perpetually inundated with bad news wherever you look. Whether it’s daily CNN broadcasts, a local news station, or even your social media feeds, there always seems to be something terrible. As a reader, I turn to books to escape into other worlds, where Read more
By Ava Kevitt TW: death, mention of violence They had appeared at the edges of her vision when she was still just a baby, crawling on the floor. Buzzing around her head like flies, her childmind would simply call them ugly monsters. She didn’t know that most people weren’t able Read more
By Chase Docter TW: Murder, dismemberment, general cruelty. World religion has, at least in the most developed regions, shrunk significantly more than what was projected; not replaced by carefree agnostics and self-determined atheists, but instead a population of depressed and spiteful nihilists, all convinced that their lives mean nothing to Read more
