Climate Science Fiction

Their captivity was traumatizing. And draining. But revenge is in the blood for a group of brave survivors in this chilling short story of conspiracies and youthful pleasures gone awry.

The protected escapees of the blood-farm experiments are free, secure, and set for life. Kind of. Because there’s something new to fear in this short thriller, the twisting finale of the Young Blood Trilogy.

Five miles off the South Carolina coast, Darden and Catherina are getting their promised forty acres, all of it undersea. Like every Black “mer,” they’ve been experimentally modified to adapt to their new subaquatic home - and have met with extreme resistance from white supremacists. Darden has an inspired plan for resolution. For both those on land and the webbed bottom-dwellers below, Darden is hoping to change the wave of the future.

In the wake of the Australian bushfires, nine-year old Zayd is upset. Zayd visited Australia when he was five. His fondest memory of the trip was his visit to the Big Hearts Animal Sanctuary on Kangaroo Island where Zayd fell in love with Harry the Koala. Four years later, Zayd is at home in Canada when he learns that many animals including koalas have lost their lives in the bushfires. He wants to know what caused the fires. When he discovers that global warming is one of the problems, he decides to do everything in his power to play his part in making the planet healthy again.

Charlie's Mailbox is a lyrical and poetic tale told through the eyes of Charlie, a lonely girl who stumbles upon an old mailbox and the power of dreams.