March 2035. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggers a catastrophic sinkhole that consumes the heart of Port Townsend, Washington in seconds. Marine biologist Isabel Reyes throws six children across a widening crack before it becomes a chasm. They survive. The Marine Science Center, and everyone inside, does not. Now Isabel is responsible for six orphaned children in a refugee camp with no running water, no medical supplies, and no government response. Eight-year-old Daniel hasn't spoken since watching his best friend die. Reed Hawthorne is documenting the dead instead of climate data. His daughter Mary is learning to record testimony because someone has to bear witness.

What emerges in the Chimacum Valley is an experiment in democratic survival — and an unflinching accounting of what it costs. Sociocracy circles for decision-making under catastrophe. Consensus processes that function but require people to break. A radio network broadcasting to forty communities that shrinks to fifteen as the peninsula collapses. Over one brutal year: forty people die from preventable causes. Four hundred eighty-six refugees are turned away at gunpoint through fair democratic process. And then, six days after their first anniversary, an armed community called Shelton arrives with three thousand people and takes control anyway.

The Sinkhole isn't about preventing climate collapse or building utopia. It's about what democratic organizing actually costs under catastrophic conditions — and what happens when someone with superior force decides your success makes you worth taking. Both things true: the systems worked. The costs were unbearable.

Set against a backdrop of melting permafrost, abandoned cities, and collapsing governments worldwide. 

Climate fiction · English  

[Kindle $7.99 · Paperback $15.99 → https://mybook.to/TheSinkhole]

Ever wondered what a glacier thinks about climate change? Or what dandelions really feel about your lawn care routine? In this wildly inventive illustrated collection, nature finally gets to speak for itself — and it has a lot to say. Twenty-six interconnected micro-tales, each two paragraphs long, each accompanied by a full-page illustration, give voice to the secret lives, petty grievances, and existential musings of Earth's inhabitants — from the microscopic to the cosmic, from the profound to the ridiculous.

Meet a penguin running underground dance parties after the documentary crews leave. A lichen contemplating its three-century relationship with its fungal partner. A raccoon treating locked garbage bins like engineering puzzles. A slug who sees its slime trails as performance art. An ancient uranium ore with commitment issues. And a surprisingly self-aware human, trying to make sense of its own place in the ecosystem.

The book's illustrations blend scientific accuracy with emotional resonance — detailed botanical drawings merging with whimsical character studies, each page design as distinctive as the voice it accompanies. The result transforms natural history into something both familiar and fantastical. Warning: May cause unexpected empathy for weeds and renewed respect for bacteria.

Nature writing & illustrated fiction · English · Paperback only 

For readers who love Terry Pratchett's wit, Richard Powers' biological insight, and Ted Chiang's imaginative leaps. 

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