Thank you.

Dear AKAWie,

We warmly thank you for sharing your future fiction with us. All crowdsourced future fictions will be collected over time and made accessible in a vivid open archive. Wonderful that you are part of this process!

If you would like to join the AKAW Community and have not done so already, join our monthly Interplay Sessions. Also feel free to register to our AKAW Newsletter to stay up to date with the journey and to get inspired by other future fictions from our community.

Warm and bright thoughts,
Your AKAW Team

P.S. As a little glimpse of hope and possible source of inspiration, we left you this poem from feminist science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin below:

Come to Dust
by Ursula K. Le. Guin

Spirit, rehearse the journeys of the body
that are to come, the motions
of the matter that held you.

Rise up in the smoke of palo santo.
Fall to the earth in the falling rain.
Sink in, sink down to the farthest roots.

Mount slowly in the rising sap
to the branches, the crown, the leaf-tips.
Come down to earth as leaves in autumn
to lie in the patient rot of winter.

Rise again in spring’s green fountains.
Drift in sunlight with the sacred pollen
to fall in blessing.

All earth’s dust
has been life, held soul, is holy.