As colour drains from the sprawling, failing metropolis, he becomes obsessed with the flowers in the kiosks, which seem only to grow brighter and more alive.
Despite his wife’s misgivings, Lorenzo is going to find out why.
What begins with cardboard scavengers in the street will lead him all the way to the presidential palace.
urban dystopia 80 pages
The Ministry of Flowers
He climbed the last steps of the subway to a city of ghosts. For the second time that week the street lights had failed and his fellow citizens, drab and dispirited at the best of times, were a shifting mass of shadow trudging the gloomy avenue. Lorenzo instinctively placed a hand over the wallet in his pocket and prepared to find a way home. Read more...
