A freeform discussion on climate, architecture, and economy in India

Célestin Ndiaye is a diplomat from a small West African country that no one has heard of and even fewer care about. In his attempts to bring prosperity to his home, he takes up a job as a diplomat, eventually making it to the United Nations, where he meets a man who promises the impossible: more time. While his new friend's gift to him is a miracle, he soon finds that it comes with its consequences.

The piece comments on the ever-diminishing value given to workmanship and quality design by juxtaposing an automobile advertisement from the mid 20th century to the tragic narrative of a routine Martian mining colony operation one to two centuries from today.

Mr. Sawyer Dawkins, Senior Manager of Marketing, is a man whose life can be summed up in a single word: ambition. As he climbs the corporate ladder, he finds his mental fortitude being stretched, until soon enough, he finds he is no longer alone inside his head.

The common sci-fi trope of the "Butterfly Effect" is challenged by this piece, which tells the story of a Mesopotamian boy who picks up a pen mistakenly left behind by time traveling anthropologists. When security forces from the future are deployed to prevent a threat to the timeline in the form of introducing a modern object to the ancient world, they find that the threat is not what it seems.