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Halfway to Free


A Dystopian Short Story


Subgenres:

  • Climate Fiction,
  • Motherhood
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  • Dystopian futures where parenting is a radical act
  • Characters questioning state control over personal choices
  • Stories exploring motherhood as rebellion
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Raising a family is the ultimate luxury as the human race teeters on the brink of extinction in this visionary short story by Emma Donoghue.

Miriam was raised in a society without children. To offset the devastation of climate change, state-of-the-art birth control has made daycares and playgrounds things of the past. As tempting as the government inducements are to remain child-free, Miriam’s curiosity about the people who “drop out” of society to become parents grows.

When she finds a like-minded partner, she must choose between the rewarding comforts she knows and the unknowable mysteries of being a mother.

Emma Donoghue’s Halfway to Free is part of Out of Line, an incisive collection of funny, enraging, and hopeful stories of women’s empowerment and escape. 

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