N A Turner

We Are All in This Together N A Turner

Climate change, technological advancement, economic shifts, political divide. Us humans seem to grow apart at an alarmingly fast pace. Sometimes we tend to forget that we are similar in so many ways. We are all in this together. This thing called life. The following collection of short stories are reflections on our shared human experience. What makes us human? What binds us? It can be through a fairy tale in which a man discovers a money tree growing in his garden. How will he cope with his newfound riches? Or through a dystopian future of advanced humans connected with AI visiting a Sapien Zoo, to see how they used to live in our time. In another story, we find ourselves in 2062. Malcolm and his family live on Mars. Both his mom and dad tell him a haunting tale about what had made them leave their former planet. A climate adrift. A totalitarian organization known as The Quartet terrorized and decimated the Earth's population. As another ship lands with the leader of The Quartet, Malcolm and his family must defend their settlement on Mars. These short stories touch upon human virtues and vices, identity, alternative universes, space travel, philosophy, death and after life, and much more. All stories feature stunning original illustrations by Jonat Deelstra.