George Orwell picked the year for his novel 1984 by inverting the last two numbers of the then-current year, 1948. We challenged you to do the same here in 2025, and write the first line of a novel set in 2052. Here we present the winner.
WINNER
I am teaching my daughter how to pretend she can’t read, how to stare blankly at a word the way you might a dissolving cloud.
Olivia Mullen
