Remember when we could cry at every little thing?

When we were younger, before the drought, we used to play a game in which you had 30 seconds to cry. The loser lived happily ever after.

Natalia Theodoridou is a media & cultural studies scholar and the dramaturge of Adrift Performance Makers (@adriftPM). Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Occasionally, she tweets @natalia_theodor.