I’m up late, which is usual for a Friday night. Snow is coming down softly. Earlier today it was all about large, soft flakes, but now it’s a misty powder under the one streetlight sort of near our house, but, really, it’s so dark out it’s hard to see the rest of it. I’m calmed…
Clara Hume’s speculative ecofiction, Back to the Garden, is told from the perspective of a group of “tipping point” survivors–a generation of mountain folks who have experienced the collapse of late-stage capitalism, along with widespread ecosystem degradation due to climate change. It is within the framework of a unique time, when these characters live through…
Someone on Bluesky recently asked what we’d be doing today if we were ignoring the inauguration. I have no interest in that event or the man being sworn in. I have no interest in watching a billionaire’s hateful oligarchic election happen. What I am interested in is doing something positive. Well, the person who asked…
In The Stolen Child, we’ll find a world unrecognizable to those of us in living in the early to mid-21st century. Fran and Leo’s youngest child, Fae, goes missing after extreme wildfires force the family off their Idaho mountain. Fae’s story is told in short interludes, which contrast with first person narratives written by the…
