Millennial #snowflakes clash with #baby-boomers: Nineteen tales of human connection and disconnection that collide and subvert the half-crazed romantic contemporary, the not so distant rosy past, our dodgy looking promised cyberpunk utopia and our post-apocalyptic dystopian future. Provocative, wistful, melancholic, nightmarish and darkly funny satire, these episodes…must surely play out logically. Or not.
How far will these characters go for love, understanding or survival? To Sainsbury’s, the Caribbean or Tibet, up a ladder, under Biotech’s robotic knives, or…to the brink of sanity? A pack of reluctant hopeful lone wolves: one builds a cabin, one a bike, another joins a teen gang. The refugee, the bereaved, the gaslighted child and the helpful neighbour all wander. The quixotic therapy addict just fibs like hell. And the porn voyeurs? The always-on algorithm search engine media junkies? Well, they do what they do, right #now.
Welcome to the curious world of If This Then That.
Table of Content
Introduction
Prologue: Watch the Show
Paradise by Numbers
The Fall
Passing Friends
Wolves i: Anamnesis
Fingers
The Orchard
As the Day Ends
Sawtooth Waves
I Remember her Sigh
Therapy i: The Cat
Wolves ii: Perpetrator
The Space
The Cabin
She
Arnica (notes for a story)
Therapy ii: A Party 150
Dim Now, Getting Brighter
Stations