Ridge Court Press

A small town opens its time capsule to find every family has the same helpful voice. A man rigs a lottery to win a broken furnace. Another subscribes to a better version of himself. The last war took four hours and killed no one. The telling of it takes years.

Fourteen linked stories from the decade ahead: a company that has thought of everything and a polite stranger in a different job each time.

Nothing here malfunctions. Nobody attacks. Every catastrophe is a granted wish. A warm, funny, devastating book about the softest ending a species could choose — the one you say thank you for.