The Hair of Cathrine Byrne and other future tales

Four short science fiction stories, all with a female lead. The different stories explore four different possibilites from the female leads perspective, and how they deal with their own reality.

Helena Orm: a dystpoian setting with a strong segregation in society. A woman struggling to nagivate this, and encounter a large organisation that deprive her of her freedom. She tries to figure out what they want with her, and try to find her own will to live. But the struggle against the military organisation which captivated her is a struggle no one has won so far.

Flowers in the sand: a crippled woman undergoe a surgery that will cure her and make her walk again, but it will also make her part machine. This create a distance between her and her step-father, the only father she ever had. And the death of her mother is a great pain in her life, a pain which shadow everything else. We follow her as Mars slowly bloom, and how she slowly open up to herself and to the rest of the world.

The Hair of Cathrine Byrne: a poetic story about a girl who lives in a world where people change the colour of their skin as we change clothes. How you look and how colourfull you are is everything. But Cathrine refuses this and stand out as grey feather in a rainbow.

Goddamn it! : a women narrates her day, a day of a modern women in a modern city. This world is a forced utopia, where happiness is mandatory and reeducation is for the overweight, asexuals and intolerants. She let us now exactly what she thinkgs about it, and as the story goes on we follow her descent into madness.