Author

Clayton Hackett

Clayton Hackett is an attorney in South Texas, a place growing more dystopian by the hour. This is his second appearance in Daily Science Fiction. Otherwise, his work has most recently been published in B-Cubed Press' Alternative Apocalypse anthology. More information is available at claytonhackett.com or via Twitter: @hackett.

http://www.claytonhackett.com/

Illegal Entry

The child was alone, sent by parents desperate to save their son before tragedy struck. Wrapped in cloth, placed not in a basket in a river, but in an escape vessel large enough for only one. A refugee from an impending crisis that inevitably would lead to the destruction of the…

Targeted

I am a sick man, with only the algorithm to keep me company now. My liver is damaged; of course the algorithm knew before I did. It tried to warn me, in its way, but back then I did not yet know how to read the ads like tea leaves or, more appropriately, entrails. The doctors…