Promises of Snow

By Mariano Diani

Promises of snow is a story set in a dystopian world. The inhabitants of the last continent survive as best they can, due to scarce resources, people are restricted to a secluded life.
Electricity is limited to certain hours, snow blocks roads, blizzards threaten the city. Children nostalgically remember times when they could leave their homes. Only adults go out to attend work or in search of supplies, that a state without resources distributes in the white streets to contain the population.
There is a place where the weather is still warm. The government tries to hide it. An expensive project has been developed, exclusive for a few.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mariano Diani
• Release date: Jan 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005024352

Mariano Diani

Mariano Diani, Argentina (1988), lic. en diseño gráfico, escritor. Autor de los libros El umbral, Realidades ilusorias y un estudio que versa sobre las características de la animación japonesa. Colaboró en diversas revistas literarias y en antologías, tradujo y publicó al inglés su primera obra, The threshold, y el relato distópico de ciencia ficción Promises of snow. Estos trabajos abarcan diferentes géneros y temáticas plurales; suspenso, policial, ciencia ficción, el drama o lo fantástico. En general, el estilo narrativo recurre a una narración fluida, con impronta propia.

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Mariano Diani

PROMISES OF SNOW

© Mariano Diani, 2020, Argentina. By the provisions of the law 11.723, the total or partial reproduction of this work by any means is prohibited, that does not have the prior, express and written authorization of the author.

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From the window of the office, he saw citizens protesting, burning trash, shouting through megaphones, lining up to secure supplies.

Guards watched, ready for repression.

Blizzards hit the city, causing destruction, the frost gnawed plantations, animals perished frozen in the fields, and the endless night. The snow block most roads, homeless people died on the streets.

He remembered Clara’s gaze, Rebeca, and Agusto’s games. They had a secluded life, the desire to go out, was drowned in nostalgia. They had to accept it, it’s the best for you, said the adults, who came out dressed in neoprene jackets, snow boots, gloves, hats, whatever could help keep them warm and confront the hostility of the weather.

Under these circumstances, he fantasized about the recurring idea of a warm place, a beach.

Although the planet was in a period of purge, as some scientists called it, there were a group of islands in the tropics where it was still hot, the sea was clean and, vegetation grew. This information was not official, the government was trying to cover it up.

That place exists affirmed Ágata. He believed her.

Sea and air expeditions failed, icebergs collided in the frozen sea, storms were relentless and unpredictable, nature forbade the region.

The project consisted of the development of capsules that would take off into space, descending directly on site.

Most did not have the money to pay such a high price. Somehow they had to pay for