Post-capitalism Stories

In a vineyard cloaked in exploitation and rot, the animals once seen as livestock and novelty awaken into organizers, saboteurs, and quiet insurgents. Narrated by a watchful California coyote who lives in the margins, this story follows a covert revolution in Temecula Valley-led not by humans, but by those trampled by their greed. As ecosystem collapse accelerates and power shifts from hooves to paws to wings, rebellion ferments beneath the vines. But liberation, once seized, demands more than victory-it requires memory, transformation, and refusal to become what was overthrown.

2103, in a post-capitalist world, Trevor (17) Zephyra (11) and Clover (4), will face an extreme adventure to save Mother Earth. Through their Gifts and a deep connection with Nature, they will see some surprising truths of a seemingly utopian world. How to deal with a past that you never knew? And who is the mysterious girl they meet in the forest, all dressed in leaves? Can she help them save the Oasis? A short Eco fiction story for those who care about the future, an alternative life and coming-of-age stories: 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙨: - 𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 - 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 - 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙜𝙚: 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 - 𝙇𝙂𝘽𝙏𝙌𝘼𝙄+ - 𝙐𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 𝙫𝙨. 𝘿𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 - 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚, 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 - 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚, 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 - 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 - 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩-𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙘 All drawings are originally mine, © Miriam Panieri, It is strictly prohibited to download or use them without my consent.

Book 2 of the Wakeful Wanderer's series. Book 1 is The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England & Beyond. That's a good place to start. It's available here. The America of our near-future is divided across socio-economic and technological-philosophical lines. The Traditionalists eschew any and all post-human technologies in favor of tangible materials. They uphold strict hierarchical structures based on religion, family, and leadership. They long for the return of the global markets wiped out by a world-shaking disaster called The Great Tide. The Interconnected stand in stark opposition to their ways, living without property, family, or religion, and modifying their bodies with the help of new and invasive technologies. They speak to each other wordlessly, employing a technological telepathy they call 'thexting' to communicate mind to mind, and embrace the gifting economy of Merit to maintain their post-scarcity lifestyles. Marto, the traveling Interconnected historian, has exiled himself to protect the ones he loves from his dark secret. In his absence, Helen, a runaway Traditionalist aristocrat, struggles to find her place among the Interconnected, unwilling to return to her cruel family. Reyleena, the former head of security in the Interconnected town of Reverside, has returned to a life of quiet solitude, broken occasionally by the impositions of The Other, an omnipresent AI, who will not leave her alone. Meanwhile, Barnabas, the Traditionalist leader of New Atlantic, fights to return to his township in the wake of an attack. Nora, his sister, remains in Reverside and must come to terms with her new life in captivity.