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I never got it off the ground, but back in early 2020, before COVID really blew up, I had started to develop some ideas for a story, and I thought this might be a good time to share, and maybe it will motivate me to revisit this.

It's the late 2050s, roughly 20 years after a series of revolutions have finished off the remnants of the former United States (which itself effectively federalized in the early 2030s). The story follows Lem, a young woman in her mid 20s, orphaned by the wars, who lives in the Tiotó:ren zone of the Eastern Great Lakes region.

Lem works for the Scout Corps, a kind of public service organization whose members monitor environmental conditions in the field, work on soil reclamation and other projects, report on the conditions of public infrastructure, and are generally available as a labor pool for other work.

So on a warm and rainy January morning, Lem heads out to a mycorrhizal soil reclamation site to for a weekly sampling to check heavy metal levels, only to find a man dead in the field, shot in the back of the head.

What can she do but try to find out why this happened what it could mean to seek a just conclusion in a world without the cruel police and courts of the old American Empire?

Against the backdrop of worsening climate conditions, plagues, and ongoing infrastructural collapse, Lem does her part to build something better from the ashes of the old world, with the aid of the stories and lessons of her recently deceased grandmother.


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