Selected by Brian Evenson as winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize In a future short on fossil fuels and flora, the military compels its soldiers to carry houseplants wherever they go.
from the hazings of basic training to a botched inva.
The narrator, a fellow recruit, makes it his mission to protect Hershel against all dangers.
Hershel Boyd is by all accounts a poor soldier, a frail, overeducated believer in the fading freedoms of a dying country.
To allow a plant to die is treason.
Selected by Brian Evenson as winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize In a future short on fossil fuels and flora, the military compels its soldiers to carry houseplants wherever they go