This piece of short fiction was originally published for The Elysian. Follow my work there.Back in the 2020s, everyone was in a tizzy about population collapse. The thinking back then was that if we didn’t have enough children, they wouldn’t grow up and generate enough money, and the economy wouldn’t be big enough to do expensive things like cure diseases and build space colonies and come up with teleportation. They tried everything to get us to procreate, but we just didn’t want to. Anyway, ...