Other potent themes abound here, especially in stories using nostalgic horror tropes to renegotiate the assumption that we should consider ourselves any more locked in to contracts with the supernatural than to hierarchies on this side of the veil. One life-and-death scenario in the collection puts it best: “Are we going to make it?” I asked.īut that’s never really the question, because the answer doesn’t ever matter. If we embrace the fact that climate change is already here, and that we cannot prevent all the horrors ahead, does this not lighten our burden as individuals? Are we not then freed up to focus on what we can do and save, instead of trying to do and save it all?Ī similar note of bittersweet emancipation flourishes in Killjoy’s We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow, And Other Stories (2022), a collection of twenty-one short stories that bear the reality of death, and in particular the possibility of imminent death that many live with every day, into fantastical and speculative settings without leaning on any sort of dystopian shock around its implications. In an episode of her podcast Live Like the World Is Dying, Margaret Killjoy reframes the concept of eco-nihilism as something that creates room for personal agency amid the inevitability of climate change. Margaret Killjoy, We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories.
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