In “Mormon Lake Hotshots,” Samuel Jensen brings us to the near future, where a family in New Mexico grapples with the increasingly dramatic effects of climate change. At turns hilarious and horrifying, Jensen’s Issue Fifteen short story conjures a disturbingly plausible vision of where we’re headed: wildfires, shadowy intruders, and retribution. Read the story online today.
Mormon Lake Hotshots | Fiction
SAMUEL JENSEN
Above and below her face the news tickers and ads from their mid-tier data plan: another emergency budget being pushed through Congress, currently filibustered. A fast food chain had switched to all seaweed-based plastic. Check out their new High Temps Low Prices value menu. Meanwhile E.M. talked about how the world was losing so much biomass every second, wildfires or not, that it was literally getting lighter. Imagine the loss from insects alone, she said. That winter, when the last gray wolf died in captivity, she called and sobbed wordlessly, ignoring their increasingly frightened questions.