Probably It Will Not Be Okay takes place at the end of the anthropocene. People and animals, what's left of them, share the ruins of a human city, a benign surveillance democracy where curfew and protests are compulsory. N and J, a couple fond of whiskey, cigarettes, and breaking into abandoned buildings, must bury their dead dog and raise a baby that appears in their house. Fleeing hazy fears, N and J drive away from the city as far as a car can take them, bringing the baby and the decaying dog through a series of misadventures that ends by a fence at the edge of surveillance. They and the baby crawl under the fence — and then the book reverses itself, telling the story of Dog, who some time later climbs back under the fence carrying a talking sloth, tracing a route back to "the first home" and the sloth's destiny.
A Short Story
Published in Golden Handcuffs Review: We Have a Jones for You. Writers respond to the art of Fay Jones.