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  • FUTURES

Alligators

Trouble in the orchard.
By
  1. Monica Joyce Evans

    1. Monica Joyce Evans is a digital game designer and researcher who began publishing speculative fiction in 2019. She is also an associate professor in arts and technology at the University of Texas at Dallas.

An alligator composed solely of fire

Illustration by Jacey

For four years, she had put off thinking about the future, and now Bee thought about it all the time. She thought about it in the morning, staring at the darkened ceiling; and at breakfast, slicing roughly into oranges; and now, watching Santos out on the veranda, considering — his words — whether to use the big torch or the flamethrower.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03595-5

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