The Thirteenth year

Ruth Nestvold

Library - Science Fiction and Fantasy Sci-Fi Short _noisfdb

Published: Jun 1, 2002

Magazine: http://www.ruthnestvold.com/

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Free story: "The Thirteenth Year."
    As a result of some of the recent political developments here in Europe (France and Holland, in particular), I decided to stop trying to market this story and just put it on the Web. Besides, it was so near future when I wrote it, time is catching up with me now. Next time I do near future, I'm going to at least give myself a couple of decades.
    The inspiration for this story was the swing to the right in Austria and Italy, as well as some regional elections in Germany, where I live, in which the polls were way off; people apparently don't want to admit voting for right-wing parties.