The Future Consequences of Present Actions | Allegra Hyde
JUNE 6, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-05-4
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
“Allegra Hyde writes with a genius scientist’s impassioned inquiry, and a poet’s lyrical, exquisite precision.”
—Tara Ison, author of Ball: Stories
The Future Consequences of Present Actions is a fictionalized retelling of the story of Charles Lane, an 18th Century Transcendentalist who founded the Fruitlands commune along with Amos Bronson Alcott and his family (which included their daughter Louisa May). The commune soon fails, and the disenchanted Lane moves with his son to a Shaker village.
In his eagerness to find a place for himself, Lane inadvertently enlists his son into indentured servitude and rescinds his paternal rights to see him. This would-be paradise also proves inadequate. Charles learns too late the high cost of entry and turns to the Alcott family for help.
JUNE 6, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-05-4
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
“Allegra Hyde writes with a genius scientist’s impassioned inquiry, and a poet’s lyrical, exquisite precision.”
—Tara Ison, author of Ball: Stories
The Future Consequences of Present Actions is a fictionalized retelling of the story of Charles Lane, an 18th Century Transcendentalist who founded the Fruitlands commune along with Amos Bronson Alcott and his family (which included their daughter Louisa May). The commune soon fails, and the disenchanted Lane moves with his son to a Shaker village.
In his eagerness to find a place for himself, Lane inadvertently enlists his son into indentured servitude and rescinds his paternal rights to see him. This would-be paradise also proves inadequate. Charles learns too late the high cost of entry and turns to the Alcott family for help.
JUNE 6, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-05-4
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
“Allegra Hyde writes with a genius scientist’s impassioned inquiry, and a poet’s lyrical, exquisite precision.”
—Tara Ison, author of Ball: Stories
The Future Consequences of Present Actions is a fictionalized retelling of the story of Charles Lane, an 18th Century Transcendentalist who founded the Fruitlands commune along with Amos Bronson Alcott and his family (which included their daughter Louisa May). The commune soon fails, and the disenchanted Lane moves with his son to a Shaker village.
In his eagerness to find a place for himself, Lane inadvertently enlists his son into indentured servitude and rescinds his paternal rights to see him. This would-be paradise also proves inadequate. Charles learns too late the high cost of entry and turns to the Alcott family for help.
