12 months - 12 short stories with a single theme: Dystopia.
D-stopia 12/12: D-stopia
Sapiens have lived and prospered until the brink of a new era. Now canines rule the world and they’re doing a find job. But is caninocracy finer than its sapiens counterpart? This is what the canine parliament in session is trying to show.
D-stopia 11/12: Frolic
Every cycle it happens.
Every cycle they are given an opportunity.
But for teenage girl Simone, is it time to reevaluate the fairness of the system she has to conform to?
D-stopia 10/12: Sand
What started like a normal day turns out to be a nightmare for Thaddeus. A happy father and husband, he’s about to lose everything.
More than once.
D-stopia 9/12: Oracle
Do you believe in fate?
If you knew the day and time you would die, would you actually believe it, and do you think that whatever you did, fate would take you to the right time and place so you’d meet your fate?
Most of the time, it does, actually. This is quite spectacular. And Cobaia witnessed a lot of them.
She works for the Oracle.
D-stopia 8/12: Influencer
How far are you willing to go to become famous? to be a Class-A influencer?
This is the question Matthew has to answer when he is propelled into a world of fame he wasn’t prepared for, and in which some sacrifices need to be made.
Dystopia 7/12: Archer
To which extreme action are you ready to go to restore the balance of your world?
Two women.
One mother. One ruler.
One must think about her family. One must think about the safety of her whole country.
Can they really agree on what to do? Or does one of them need cave in?
Dystopia 6/12: Trial
What would you tell a jury if you were on trial simply for being alive? Today Bartholomew Marie Andersson is on trial. Can he convince you not to kill him?
Read MoreDystopia 5/12: Cutters
After social isolation is needed to fight a viral pandemic, governments decide to take it one step further to ensure people don’t approach each other. But can we really live a a world where human contact has been banned?
Read MoreDystopia 4/12: Sisters
Welcome to the Gyneceum, where women have organised a life of harmony, peace and sustainability. There are all Sisters and have cut themselves from the outside world, the wild, for generations. Sister Caris is a hard worker and she's happy in the Gyneceum. But her life is about to change. Forever.
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Dystopia 2/12: Cathedral - When a Downpour destroyed most of the world has we know it, how can a society grow back, and on which principles? Young Matthew Baker will learn that it doesn’t take much for someone to find themselves on the wrong side of the law, and that the road to redemption is never an easy path.
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Dystopia 1/12: The Defects - In a society where diseases and epidemics have been eradicated, what would happen if someone got sick? What choices would individuals be left with if we surrendered our health system to pharmaceutical conglomerates?
