“Rat Kids” – Short Story – 1995 ( sci-fi-fantasy)
In the year 2210 Rat kids live in the dim, stinking underground levels beneath the great domes of America. These subterranean, concrete lined zones are used for composting garbage. Every city in North America with a population over 100,000 has been re-built as a mega-structure over the past generation and covered with a tinted plastic [...]