Genre: Satirical Fiction

A genre that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. It often aims to provoke thought and stimulate change.

4 min

Philosophical Allegory

The Cartographer’s Palimpsest

My shift in the Department of Ephemeral Geographies began, as always, with a quiet resignation to the absurdity of it all. The City, a vast, restless beast of concrete and glass, never paused for measurement.