This diverse and varied anthology of short fiction, essays and poems includes contributions by Sam Jordison, Chantal Mouffe, Steven O'Brien, Jules Pretty, Justine Sless, Patrick Wright and poet M W Bewick as well as by writers from the current Patrician Press stable. The contributors confront our present political 'tempestuous' times and some of the works have a science-fiction flavour to include dystopian, authoritarian and imagined worlds.