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The Hillside

By: Jane Smiley
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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After bringing Earth to ruin, the age of humans is over. It is a blessing for some in this tender and tragic cautionary fable from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.

Now the Congress of Animals is in control, unforgiving, and debating the fate of the planet’s most reviled species. The popular ruling: exterminate humankind without exception. But a curious mare, coming of age, is making a case for a seemingly gentle person she longs to save - a wish for mercy that could once again unbalance the new and righteous nature of the world.

Jane Smiley’s The Hillside is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

©2018 Jane Smiley (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Animals Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Satire Science Fiction Comedy Short Stories Apocalyptic Fiction

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A nice tidy dystopian short. Well performed and also well written. Pointing out the flaws in our civilization.

What if animals ruled over us.

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