I haven't read anything else in this series but, after reading this little short, I think I'd like to. It's set post-nameless apocalypse, with food stocks plummeting, and there's clearly something gone wrong with agriculture, because what's being grown is barely sufficient to maintain the population. In the midst of all the short dreary rations of porridge comes a strawberry, and it's a reminder of the dreams Mariah has been having, of her early childhood where everything was green and growing still. There's a nicely done sense of nostalgia, sort of a warm golden glow about the memories, but I'm more interested in the post-apocalyptic than the pre- here. I wanted to see more of the world Mariah was actually living in, as opposed to the past. Hence the interest in the rest of the series...