Climate anxiety is a very real phenomenon, and this was the first time I had seen it actualises in a contemporary short story. Unlike the imagined future landscapes conjured by Nazdam and Jamieson, Groff holds us in an alarming present. Much of her short fiction focuses on her adopted home of Florida, and in this case the very real threat to the state of rising sea-levels. We meet a narrator who is plagued with anxiety about the impending environmental crisis, coming to terms with her grief at the realisation that she is powerless to stop it.
Collected in Warmer Collection, Amazon Original, 2018
A Personal Anthology 