'Everyone is watching you - it was true, they really were'

WEATING from climbing 14 storeys of stairs, Winston entered his flat (elevators, private cars and all nonessential power use had been banned in 2035 under the emergency Energy Preservation Act, which had followed the International Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty).

- Paul Baldwin

Alexa piped up: “Winston, what time is it and where have you been?” He answered promptly, knowing that to do otherwise would invite a visit from the Reeducation Po