Sweet Sixteen for American girls can be cake and candles, maybe new driver’s license… But a 16th birthday in Nina’s future Chicago means no more protection from sexual assault. Now added to the government stranglehold on the Media which bombards city-dwellers with advertisements around the clock and all-pervasive surveillance is a mystery about Nina’s long-dead … Continue reading XVI, by Julia Karr (fiction) – in future, 16 isn’t so sweet