Future Blue 2189 (A Short Sci Fi Story)

A Short Science Fiction Crime Story.

New Detroit, 2189. The drugs are legal, the laws are negotiable, and the city stopped pretending to care about its people a long time ago.

Officer Steven Garner has seen enough stairwells, enough kiosks, enough faces wearing expressions that have no good name to know exactly what this city is. His partner is a machine that logs his every heartbeat. His uniform is a leash with a badge on it. And every shift delivers another dead end dressed up as a call for service.

But Garner still shows up.

Not because the system deserves it. Not because the city will ever thank him for it.

Because somewhere in everyone's worst moment, a Blue walks through the door. And the kind of Blue that walks through that door still matters - even here, even now, even in a world that has forgotten why it ever should.

A noir crime story set in a future that isn't as far away as we'd like to think.