Xauri’EL Zwaan is a mendicant artist in search of meaning, fame and fortune, or pie (where available); a Genderqueer Bisexual, a Socialist Solarpunk, and a Satanist Goth. Zie has published short fiction, among other places, in Spectra Magazine, Polar Borealis, Cossmass Infinities, and the anthologies Strange Economics and Crunchy With Ketchup. Zie lives and writes in a little hobbit hole in Saskatoon, Canada on Treaty 6 territory with zir life partner and two very lazy cats.
John Adam thinks of himself as an ordinary man. But when his consciousness is uploaded, appropriated as intellectual property, and forced into slave labour in a far-future corporate dystopia, he must find the will within himself to become extraordinary. A gripping novelette by Xauri'EL Zwaan.