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"One of the best speculative writers of the last decade." -- John ScalziJanuary Fifteenth -- the day all Americans receive their annual Universal Basic Income payment.For Hannah, a middle-aged mother, today is the anniversary of the day she took her two children and fled her abusive ex-wife.For Janelle, a young, broke journalist, today is another mind-numbing day interviewing passersby about the very policy she once opposed.For Olivia, a wealthy college freshman, today is "Waste Day", when rich kids across the country compete to see who can most obscenely squander the government's money.For Sarah, a pregnant teen, today is the day she'll journey alongside her sister-wives to pick up the payments that undergird their community -- and perhaps embark on a new journey altogether.
About the Author
Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and she graduated from Clarion West in 2005. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy and Sturgeon Awards. She's twice won the Nebula Award: for her 2010 novella, "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" and her 2014 short story, "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love."
