There Will Come No Rains

Cover image The Prisoners from Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (public domain).There Will Come No Rains

A swarm of drones moved with the algorithmic spontaneity of starlings, darkening the night sky in pockets that expanded and collapsed and expanded and collapsed in shapes that nature could have never predicted but seemed full of life, and meaning, and beauty. Each of them controlled remotely, separately, but somehow orchestrated together as if by the celestial hand of clockwork. They fill...