Alexander Fredman

Alexander Fredman recently graduated from Brown University with a degree in Environmental History, and writes fiction and nonfiction focused on ideas of precarity, degradation, and collapse.

Fugue

I had already moved away when disaster struck. I saw the images on the TV news. The water moved slow, and the buildings crumbled slow, and animals perched still on the ruins. The people were gone, mostly. It was the next afternoon, I think, that the Mayor announced that there had been no fatalities.