Future Hopes

What if, in the future, everyone had an allocated carbon footprint, and you had to work off anything extra you create? What might happen if someone discovered a bacteria that could eat all our plastic waste? Or what if everyone had to grow their own food?

These ideas and more are explored in this diverse and exciting collection of short stories from a group of exceptional authors. Every story here is different: some feel a little younger, some a little older; some stories are funny, others more scary; some deal with difficult emotions while others are more slapstick.

Each story is inspired by an environmental conservation idea, but the collection encompasses a surprising variety of different interpretations of this environmental theme, using different genres and perspectives. And while the environmental theme is clear, the real heart of each of these tales are young people and their everyday desires, dreams and worries.

Short stories themselves offer a fresh reading experience, as you can potentially read a whole story in one sitting. Packed full of intriguing ideas with the potential to spark lots of inspiration and interesting conversations, the stories in this collection are all compulsively readable and will stay with you.