Blue Nowruz.

Photo: Brownsville, United States, June 28, 2018. EPA-EFE/Larry W. Smith

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In support of the protests happening this weekend, I’m making freely available my near-future science fiction story, “Blue Nowruz.” Listen to the audiobook if you can, because the story was written to be performed, not read; but the text is there too.

It was commissioned for TED 2015 by Neil Gaiman and Chris Anderson, the only prompt being: it had to occur in the next fifteen years, and it had to offer an optimistic vision of the future. So—having been pro-open borders for as long as I’ve been aware of the concept—I wrote about what a simultaneous, worldwide border protest would look like, and how it would begin to change the world.

I hope we’re getting closer to realizing that vision.

This story was supported entirely by my sustainers on Patreon. If you want to support this work and its free availability to all, regardless of means, please pledge here. Thank you.

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