Christopher Herz

Harold Hall, once a struggling actor, gets his big break when he lands the role of a revolutionary leader on a groundbreaking new Web show based on the country’s addiction to social media. Eliah uses rotary phones and doesn’t have an email address, much less a hashtag. When she comes in...

1993. San Francisco. The digital and pharmaceutical industries are booming. They’re looking for the young, the hip, and those on the counterculture fringe to be both the face and consumer of their new world order. Recruited by an advertising agency focused on targeting a new drug to her own...

All fire escapes lead back to the same block in Sugar Hill, Harlem - where kids run through hydrants and music blares from stereos plugged into lampposts. When a new resident (the story’s unnamed narrator) notices the trash polluting the picturesque streets and tainting his block’s beauty...