Dystopia Nears

Image by Jessica Christian.

Who needs dystopian political science fiction in Amerika today? Real time nonfiction feels dystopian enough.

The other morning I was awakened by the sound of Interstate 80, two miles north. The constant dull shrieks of the trucks merges into one never-ending scream of engines and tires.

This death roar can be heard in every corner of this country. The carbon that spews out of these monstrous machines and all the cars, pickup trucks and SUVs between...