The Future of Nature” is an Earth Day community writing project for fiction writers to explore the human-nature relationship in a short story or poem. It was organized by Claudia Befu and Julie Gabrielli, and supported with brilliant advice from scientists Jonathan Tonkin and between two seas. The stories listed below are from this project.
LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The moth effect by Alia Parker of Mind Flexing
We are Stardust by Alicia Arbe of Alicia’s Substack
This Will Happen Again by Annie Hendrix of Annie Hendrix
You Won’t Remember by Ben Wakeman of Catch & Release
Red Bloom by Brian Reindel 👾⚔️ of Future Thief
The Story-Seeker and Her Rooted Friend by 𝐂𝐁 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧
Fall of the Jellarks by Chef Chris of Comical Foods
Human Island by Claudia Befu of Story Voyager
Silverback by Memoirs of a Mad Scientist of Memoirs of a Mad Scientist
GOB CHÀRNAIRC by Dan Reat of Dan Reat
Bad Kids Don’t Light Good Fires by Devon Nako of Hurtle Club
Archive of Stone by Emily Charlotte Powell of While I Was Drawing
The After-Life by Jamie's Grim Tabulations
Homeobox by Johnathan Reid of ReidItWrite
The Cheyenne Girl by Joseph Young of small blog
then now someday by Julie Gabrielli of Homecoming
Life with birds in the fifty-second world by Kate Bown of Wild and Wonderful
The Last Dreamer* by Marla Lise of Martha’s Musings as an Earthling
Earth Day Thoughts by <Mary L. Tabor> of “Only connect…”
Renovated Home for Sale in the Carolina Mountains. Includes Fish. by Nick Buchheit of This Nick Writes
Homo Myceliensis by Nick Winney of The Why & the Why Not
I dreamt of better worlds by radicaledward of Wolf
Bright shards of sea-worn credit cards by Sarah Rose Nordgren of Wilderment
The Future(s) of Justice (Part 1): Sofia108 by Sharon Hom of Talkingcat88
Surface Tension by Shoni of Shoni’s Journey
Topside by Stephanie Loomis of Defaulting to Grace
Follow on the Water by Stephanie Sweeney of FROM THE INTERSTICES
The Stone Dreams by Susan Earlam of The Wild and the Quiet
Books of the Future by Thomas Wharton of Story Ecology
If there are any typos or broken links, please let me know in the comments and I will fix them. Thank you!
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Thank you for spreading the word, Erica. I truly appreciate the effort you put into supporting this Earth Day project, especially in your current condition. I hope that you'll get better soon ❤️🩹.
Thank you for all your efforts and support, Erica! Be well!