Tag: Restoration Stories
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Making up Holidays is no party
Thursday. My self-assigned “post about world-building” day. It’s also Thanksgiving in the United States, a holiday devoted to overeating, family strife, and promoting national mythology at the expense of historical fact. In recent years, consumer hysteria and socio-economic inequality have bubbled up into that poisonous mix. Not that I have any personal issues with Thanksgiving or holidays in general. Oh, no. I might […]
K. M. Herkes
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Class in My Classless Society
This week’s bit of Restoration Stories trivia takes a look at the Subsistence system and the way good ideas always have unintended consequences. Like the earlier ones I’ve posted, it’s framed as a bit taken from faux publication. Excerpt from “A Call for Change,” the unofficial manifesto of the anti-Subsistence movement. The Subsistence system, with its simple and […]
K. M. Herkes
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Cleaning Out The Closet
Today in building The Stories of the Restoration, I offer a bit of faux academic writing about law enforcement in the Restored United States. The fictional writer responsible for it vehemently disagrees with socio-political concepts accepted by most of my other characters. Who’s right? Good question. An excerpt from ” National Insecurity: The Hidden Power of the Civilian Security […]
K. M. Herkes
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How Did It All Start?
The week’s cheerful data dump, this time about my Restoration Stories world.
