Rowling in the Year 3000

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination April 2015 Science Fiction, 1,100 words

Long after her death, the estate of J.K. Rowling is a money-making machine, capitalizing on the creative output of dozens of her clones—just as all wealthy literary estates do in the year 3000. But J.K. Rowling clone Melanie refuses to let any other person (or entity) profit from her own creative spark. Can she refuse to write forever? Would giving in be so terrible? Or is there another way?

Originally published in IN PIECES.