Winds of Change

Now one misunderstood girl may know what the damaged world is going to do next.

Saima left the privileged platform society of her birth to build a life with the nomadic Winterwillow Collective. Travelling across a heat-baked, dust-choked future Earth with her husbands Pallas and Markas, she is still learning where she belongs.

When Winterwillow reaches the underground Aberuthen Warren, they find another Collective stranded, its caravan destroyed—and a thirteen-year-old deaf girl named Rina accused of abducting a baby.

As a judge investigates the apparent crime, Saima uses her unusual empathic abilities to look past what everyone assumes about Rina. What she discovers changes the meaning of the abduction completely. But violent weather is already bearing down on the valley, and understanding Rina may matter to far more than one frightened family.

In a world still recovering from humanity’s environmental catastrophe, survival depends on recognizing the talents people carry—and on believing that change can mean something better.

Winds of Change is a thoughtful, hopeful solarpunk science fiction short story about belonging, communication, climate, found family and the unexpected forms human adaptation can take.

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Other standalone fiction by Cameron Cooper: 

And We Danced All Night 

A Place for Everyone 

A Room of Her Own 

Resilience 

Space Opera Firsts 

Galactic Reflections 

He Really Meant It 

Quiet Like Fire 

Winds of Change 

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Praise for Cameron Cooper’s SF: 

Epic science fiction at its finest. Realistic far future worlds. Incredible characters and scenarios. 

The concepts are staggering and intensely interesting. 

This story is terrific! It's intriguing and futuristic and human in its telling.