It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.