The
Hermaphrodites

In the twenty-second century, chronic pandemics have ravaged the world. Death rates outpace births. Then a combination of vaccines and evolution creates a population of hermaphrodites — and with them, a natural immunity against deadly viruses.

Humanity may have found its way back from the edge. But a cure for extinction is not the same thing as an answer to being alive. In this new world, there is no distinction between men and women: one sexuality, one gender, one official story.

“If God wants us to be hermaphrodites, we should not tamper with His plan.”— the government dictum

What happens when your body tells you something different? What if the feelings you carry still lean toward the male or toward the female — and the world has decided those directions no longer exist?