Past Futures

For the Workman twins, Klay, and Kiefer, their eighteenth birthday is their last day of freedom. At eighteen, now considered productive, citizens are given their future role in society as Creator, Worker, Soldier, or Dependent. The Nation, a totalitarian regime that rose to power after the worst climate crisis in human history, depends on a system of productivity while enforcing rigid social roles, down to limiting each family to giving birth once.

Klay and Kiefer's parents hide a shocking ...