Ships of Dignity
He saved them. Then the market bought them.
Everyone expectsThe world cannot agree how to house refugees.
Liam O’Donovan can no longer bear watching people die while an adequate response fails to appear.
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Vulture Herders
An economy grows around an emergency that has become permanent.
Everyone expects
An emergency is something to end.
What I found
In a ruined world, somebody still has a job to do.
Farmers in microlights herd vultures along refugee trails, following forecasts of where people are likely to die. Rival herders compete for territory. The birds feed on the dead; some are sold as food at aid centres.
The world is built through the livelihood: routines, rivalries, forecasts, markets and the dependence of ordinary people on work that would once have seemed unimaginable.
This is a speculative-fiction premise about life organised around catastrophe, rather than a proposal for humanitarian response.
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The Time Travel Trading Company
Do we rescue them—or hire them cheap?
Everyone expectsA time gate lets us rescue our descendants.
A time gate connects us with people living in a damaged future. We have resources they need. They have labour we can buy cheaply.
Follow how it could happenDream Advertising
She paid to be in your dreams.
Everyone expectsNeural interfaces restore lost abilities.
People can purchase appearances in somebody else’s dreams. Aiden keeps seeing the same woman. His suspicion grows alongside feelings he does not want to dismiss.
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