Enthralled Magazine Vol 1 Issue 9 - Enquire

some of the other men. You know, to say ‘hi’.”
“Well, be careful,” Mary warned, “You know how people can get the wrong idea,
and the last thing you need is another investigation by The Alliance.”
Tom smiled. “You are worrying over nothing.”
He gently clicked the door shut and left.
As usual the foliage he had cleared the night before had a grown back, only on
this morning it seemed to be greater than normal.
I’ve have to apply for more herbicide he thought to himself. I know there is a
limit to how much each household can use, but this is getting out of control.
Unlike many, Tom could remember the days before the Tilt. They said that it
was because he had been living near the equator at the time. That position on
Earth’s surface had made the transition of the Tilt much easier for him, and others
like him.
Tom could remember the day as clearly as it had happened yesterday.
He had been working at a research centre in Southern America. The heat had
been unbearable and he was worried that he was going to be eaten alive by