"Welcome to Solardale (Short Story)"

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By the year 2050, the small town of Carbondale, Illinois has renamed itself Solardale in honor of its embrace of solar power and transformation into a post-scarcity, solarpunk, municipalist community. When climate migrants arrive from the coasts, Solardale’s commitment to hospitality is called into question. One of these new arrivals, Amalia, learns that some of Solardale's residents want to preserve their small town utopia by closing their doors to any future climate migrants. Can a small town handle a growing number of climate migrants? Will Amalia be able to find her place in Solardale and convince her new neighbors to open their community to more climate migrants like her? If you enjoy Welcome to Solardale, you'll love the full-length novel about Amalia's quest to make Solardale live up to its commitment to hospitality for climate migrants. Read the full novel when it's published in 2025 or start reading the first chapters today on the author's Ko-fi page!