"Vaccine Season" by Hannu Rajaniemi

Published: April 13, 2021, 4 a.m.

b"In a post-pandemic future where scientists have made great strides in eliminating disease, a young boy faces his fears and ventures out to his grandfather's island to give him an important vaccine.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nThis story appears in the anthology Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, edited by Gideon Lichfield and available for pre-order from The MIT Press.\\nContent advisory: Discussion of pandemics, near-drowning"