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The year is 2276. Oceans have risen. Oil has run out long ago. The human population has skyrocketed to over 14 billion people. Decades and hundreds of years of pollution, bad waste management, and limiting food resources have caused countless natural disasters and diseases, damaging our world. The worldwide Great Plague of 2083 disturbed world governments that if another such outbreak occurred, the extinction of humanity would be imminent.

The Hamster's Wheel is a short story of a young single mother's struggle to overcome opiate addiction. She is arrested for a DUI and has the good fortune to be placed in a caring rehab setting with a competent community health nurse assigned to her care. The up and down struggles she experiences and the effects on her two young children give the story a family focus. With the crackdown on opiate prescription pain medications, it is a pertinent story for our times.

Catherine Laval pays little mind to the rumors of an impending revolution circulating among her father's aristocratic friends during the social season of 1788. She's far more concerned with the latest fashions, gossip, and securing a suitably wealthy husband. However, the innocent flirtations and coy deceptions of her entitled lifestyle turn deadly one tragic evening at her family's estate.