Rot & Ripening is a fantasy.
Rot & Ripening is one possible future in three voices.
Rot & Ripening is a thought experiment: what happens when you remove the men from the world?
Rot & Ripening asks: when you remove men from the world, are you left with a utopia, or the same reality?
Rot & Ripening contains stories told in poems.
Rot & Ripening does not celebrate violence but sits in the quiet aftermath and asks: what now?
Rot & Ripening shows that even when the world ends, there is still work to be done.
Rot & Ripening is speculative fiction wrapped in poetry.
Rissa Pappas is a writer, editor, and dancer based in the greater Philadelphia area. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Rissa was previously a publisher and editor at the now-extinct small press Tolsun Books. She once went "viral" for live-tweeting her period. When she's not doing creative things, she transports sick foxes to rehabilitation (despite their chagrin). Follow her antics at rissapappas.com.