Retro-Amnesia

Synopsis

In this near-future Age of Man, the world has completely run out of original ideas—and nostalgia has become a broad-based sedative for a population terrified of making mistakes. In "The Simon Stone Story," a roadside florist fakes his death to escape an absurd lawsuit brought on by an entitled customer allegedly stung by a bee in one of his flowers. In "A Second-Hand Life," Jasper Snow wakes up with a dead industrialist's vast wealth, beginning the systematic dismantling of a corporate empire just to reclaim the simple pleasure of being mortal.