Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene

Fiction. A Sámi woman studying Alaska fish populations sees our past and future through their present signs of stress and her ancestral knowledge. A teenager faces a permanent drought in Australia and her own sexual desire. An unemployed man in Wisconsin marvels as a motley parade of animals makes his trailer their portal to a world untrammeled by humans. Featuring short fiction from authors around the globe; FIRE & WATER: STORIES FROM THE ANTHROPOCENE takes readers on a rare journey through the physical and emotional landscape of the climate crisis--not in the future; but today. By turns frightening; confusing; and even amusing; these stories remind us how complex; and beautiful; it is to be human in these unprecedented times.

Contributors include Tomas Baiza; J. D. Evans; Mary Fifield; Bishop Garrison; JoeAnn Hart; Anthony S. James; Stefan Kiesbye; Jack Kirne; Carlos Labbé; Shaun Levin; Jessica Meeker; Jennifer Morales; Etan Nechin; Vivian Faith Prescott; Kristin Thiel; Jan Underwood; and Tara Williams.