Consumerism Stories

Book 2 of the Casino Chronicles After the Hockey Pee-Wee World Championship, where Janick got injured shortly after scoring the game-winning goal during the grand final, she abandons hockey entirely, and she must find ways to recover and reinvent herself, in a world where casinos and alcohol are at every corner, as she begins high school. Note: This story is actually a translation from French of a very old project, so it will feel quite different from all my previous work.

It's a short story about life and it's cycle. Every living things depends on someone else for food and nutrition to survive. Whether it is humans or someone else. Do you think we will ever be able to escape this cycle? Do we really need to escape this cycle? Or can we just accept the way it is?

Fred is angry, Fred is sad, Fred is happy, Fred is mad, Fred wants you to read a story about the logical conclusions of modern day media consumption. If you don't nothing will happen because he is probably already dead

*A Zombie Short Story with a Surprise Ending* When Jordan is awakened in the middle of the night by a horde of the undead, he is forced into a fight for his life and his upperclass suburban existence. What he finds leads him to question the safe path he has followed in life and ultimately make the choice to stay the course or start fresh. A short sci-fi story about modern life, conformity, and the road not taken.

The city of the future is not built. It is manufactured. It does not cater to the needs of its people, but people's needs are catered to it. s

The origin of a certain consumerist holiday in an alternate reality. Inspired by this Reddit writing prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7ghu9e/wp_once_every_year_ebay_sellers_don_masks_and/

This is an article that I have written about my views on the homeless people in London, particularly the way they are unnoticed at Christmas time and how all we have left now is hope.

Corporations know more about you - than you do. For Mitch Todson, buying a product at the Buy-and-Have on the way home from work results in a knock at his door he never expected. Is this short dystopian tale consumers are the products and corporations manipulate you through unimaginable ways.

Short story, about a guy who does a lot of running. Based on Akala's song of the same name, and also on Comic Strip Presents: Gino - Full story and pics. Just giving credit where credit's due.

the evocation of indulgence commonplace amongst consumerism.

It's an attack on the thoughts The very thing from which we were formed Going for their core Until they ain't innocent no more

Portland, Oregon has evolved into a where brand involvement equivocates to success. Ivy Korber has been preparing for Designation Day since the day she laid eyes on selected women from the prestigious fashion line, Lucci. Sharply making the age deadline, her future is set when she is initiated as one of Lucci's own poster girls. Things quickly start to lose their luster, though, when she crosses paths with clipped and direct Lucci executive-in-training, Kye. It appears Kye knows more than he is letting on, but with uprising attacks across the country by the notorious rebel group, Nominum, hitting closer to home than originally anticipated, the two seem to be the only ones acknowledging the threat. Working through clashing conflicts of interest, Kye and Ivy must join forces to protect their home in Portland and their own livelihoods, tiptoeing on the verge of much more sinister plots than Nominum's haven raids.

A live story of our family's round the world trip. Diced with musings on plastic society, being father, a husband, and a business owner.

Horror beach read about the horrors of the beach and consumerism in culture.

When you're broken. When all your strings have snapped, and all your candles blown out, it's hard to have pity for a race so ignorant

Constantly we're told what to do, what to wear, how to look, what to eat, what to think.....Not on my watch!