The short story that Brooke Tasker and I wrote takes place in 2028. It is called The Unofficials and is centered on a world where there is a limit on how many children a family can have because of lack of resources. We decided to write a story with this as the main idea because it is unique in comparison to the other stories that we read throughout the quarter. Most of them focused on some sort of disaster and while our story includes issues due to climate change, the main effect global warming has on the story is causing a huge lack of resources resulting in a limit of how many children a family is able to have. This is a very concerning and relatable issue because it will encourage people to think about their own lives in families if they were put in that situation

We decided to write the story in first person and in the format of a journal in order to try and connect to the audience more. In past readings this quarter, many of the people in our class felt that the stories written this way had a much greater emotional impact and that was the effect that we were trying to achieve. Climate change fiction is responsible for getting through to peoples emotions to get them to want to help the cause of climate change and we wanted our story to be an example of this in both the way it was written and the storyline itself.

““The Officials” are what they are called, but in simpler terms they are the executors. These men, these hunters, they lurk at night just like they are creeping up on deer, and at a snap of a finger, take them down. But in this new world we are the helpless deer.”

The quote above is just a small portion of the story that captures the essence of the situation these “Unofficials” are in.