Author: Mark Renney

The island is getting smaller, but those who reside in the Tower are in denial. Hiding behind the steel rafters and columns and the reinforced sheets of glass that comprise the walls of their homes, they won’t accept that a very real danger lurks beyond their windows. The occupants of the Tower, it seems, have wilfully decided to ignore the unavoidable fact that the island is shrinking, that it is crumbling away and sinking into the sea.

The occupants don’t ever step from the Tower. They haven’t in decades. Almost everything they need is delivered directly to their windows via drones. Anything else is brought in by the staff who live off-site. They have almost no contact with the outsiders but they are, of course, in communication with the other Towers and the wheels of industry are still turning.

The occupants all agree that a little disharmony is a good thing for commerce and the naysayers and the arbiters of doom have no soapbox within the Tower. Business is booming and money is plentiful and so