FUTURE FARM STORIES

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“Their Shadows in the Sky,” the book's third story, concerns a group of three friends who grow up on a farm but, despite their love for play and innocent games, words, and secret codes, their lives are far from idyllic. A growing thirst among the community for efficiencies on the farm begins to make their lives difficult. The older, smaller, farms which they knew are systematically destroyed. The farm's efficiencies become ever more crushing until our friends realise that they may have to use their interest in secret codes to help them make their escape. But then, to introduce a ray of hope, they come across a “Mr. Parsley,” who they come to see as a possible saviour, a friendly man who visits from far away, who they increasingly see as someone so powerful that even the shape of his head seems to be reflected in buildings, in their phones, and even the landscape.

I had been standing in the office in the place where I worked in the country, and three of my colleagues were there talking. I had never seen the three of them together in the same place before, and I never saw the three of them together again. That was the source for this story. To develop, I took the idea of contact tracing by smartphones, then recently introduced, to use as an additional threat.

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Image: Panels from the story!