This is bigger than my package, which is lost somewhere between Greenville, Pennsylvania and Guangdong Province. It’s emblematic of a collapsing society. The social contract has been broken. You can’t afford to buy a house. You can’t get a human on the phone. You can’t order pink lingerie from China.

Jake Holland is an American writer based in the UK. He holds a degree in literature from UC Berkeley. His fiction has appeared in Maudlin House, BlazeVOX, and Gone Lawn.