The world as we know it is no more, for the very machines we built have taken over. Humans, like Cedes, survive by that barest of margins, scavenging and scrounging for anything that can help them survive. They have become a people without a past, a people with no hope for the future. Cedes is one of the few who thinks for herself, who questions what’s happening, and why some have disappeared. $0.99 on Kindle.