Author

Evan Marcroft

Evan Marcroft is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror residing in Sacramento, California. His work has appeared in Metaphorosis, Pseudopod, and Strange Horizons. When he's not busy writing many more stories than he sells, he's hard at work helping repossess your car.

The Hard Knock of Freedom

Thirty years to the day after the death of The Government, Abel reports to his shift at the VariaCorp Tire Factory. His job is to inspect the tires the machines make to ensure that they are fit to put on VariaCorp cars, cars that he can choose to buy because without The…