Solar Flare - The Drift

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Solar Flare - The Drift Issue 14 | December 18, 2024 Image by Brooke Bourgeois Issue 14 | December 18, 2024 Issue 14 | December 18, 2024 Fiction Solar Flare Miriam Gordis W hen Alex came back from the dead, it was the summer of all the heat waves. Every time it got above 95 degrees, an alert on our phones told us to turn off the lights and keep our refrigerators closed. Something was wrong with the grid and they couldn’t or wouldn’t fix it. Sometimes they came down my block and tinkered and then left. There were blackouts for hours at a time. I went to the salon to get rid of all the dust

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