"Wild Plums"

Submitted by LT_Sargent on Sun, 04/23/2023 - 11:39
Title"Wild Plums"
Year for Search2022
AuthorsTanzer, Molly(b. 1981)
Secondary AuthorsChrulew, Matthew
Secondary TitlePhase Change: Imagining Energy Futures
Pagination48-64
Date Published2022
PublisherTwelfth Planet Press
Place Published[Yokine, WA, Australia]
ISBN Number978-1-922101-73-0
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

The story is set after the United States has fallen apart and has formed NACE with Canada and Mexico. After multiple disasters most of the population live in domed SPHRE’s (Solar-Powered Habitat and Replacement Environment’s) that are compulsively managed so that everything occurs on a programmed basis, goods are traded with other SPHRE’s in predictable amounts on predictable days. “No one could profit off what was necessary for life” (52). All young people required to attend “NACE-mandated Social Responsibility and Conflict Resolution classes” (55). The protagonist, a young married woman, leaves her SPHRE to search for the wild plums of the title, at which point the story takes an unexpected turn. 
Author Note

Female author (b. 1981)
Full Text

2022 Tanzer, Molly (b. 1981). “Wild Plums.” Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures. Ed. Matthew Chrulew ([Yokine, WA, Australia]: Twelfth Planet Press, 2022), 48-64. PSt

The story is set after the United States has fallen apart and has formed NACE with Canada and Mexico. After multiple disasters most of the population live in domed SPHRE’s (Solar-Powered Habitat and Replacement Environment’s) that are compulsively managed so that everything occurs on a programmed basis, goods are traded with other SPHRE’s in predictable amounts on predictable days. “No one could profit off what was necessary for life” (52). All young people required to attend “NACE-mandated Social Responsibility and Conflict Resolution classes” (55). The protagonist, a young married woman, leaves her SPHRE to search for the wild plums of the title, at which point the story takes an unexpected turn. Female author.