Camp Zero

Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation.

Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves.

‘We must imagine a future of less. Less capital. Less resources. Less space. And we must accept that the survival of the human race depends on a radical reimagining. Use and destroy can no longer be our credo of living.’

How can you fault the fist when the heart spasms for air?

Of course it’s shit.” Nari squeezes her hand. “But it’s the only world we have.

she knows now that power is never granted but seized.

a pink as soft and sweet as the inside of a newborn’s ear.

Books and poems and people standing together in protest and lighting the flag on fire doesn’t matter one iota when we are dying of thirst, burning from the sun, sinking into the sea. Day Zero approaches for us all. For some, it’s earlier than others, but it’s always there, a looming deadline for when we all expire.