Seed
by Iliana Vargas (tr. Michelle Mirabella)
Exchanges Journal of Literary Translation, 2019
The story “Seed” is timely both for its relevance to current global conversations on climate and its contribution to the development of the climate fiction (cli-fi) genre. In this cli-fi the setting is familiar; we do not have to suspend our disbelief to picture the scene because in many ways, we are living it.