Welcome to the future. Energy is scarce, food is scarce, climate is extreme and there are way too many people running around. The only way forward is more work, smaller wages and stricter laws. Or so the corporations would have you believe. But the more you squeeze the fist, the more sand escapes through your fingers...
There's also Urban, the vignette that started it all, itself made from the frayed beginning of another, never-completed story (plain text version).