The Last of Rosa

Set in the near future the world as we know it has turned toxic. Global warming has left the majority of the planet uninhabitable. Skyscraper cities form the last strongholds against the fast-growing deserts that have taken over the globe. The survival of humankind is challenged by diseases, water shortages and food scarcity. In one of the massive battery farms that grow food for the living, Rosa has spent more than a decade in forced labor. Confronted with the reality of her body's purpose in this manmade pen, she holds on to the only thing that she has left: her hope of being reunited with her family one day.

The Last of Rosa is a dark and grim climate fiction short story that shows the limits of overharvesting a dying planet and that raises questions about humanity's behaviour towards how we treat the food sources we raise to kill.