And not in the broken line of verse kind of way. Over and above the presence of the Naked In School Program, the setting of my Triad series is explicitly if subtly science fictional. The most obvious signal for this is that the United States has gone consistently metric.
Well, mostly consistently. I only just noticed, after seven years of off-and-on working with the stories, that I'd goofed in a pretty obvious way: bra sizes in inches instead of centimeters.
#insert elaborate_facepalm.h
Yeah, I'm such a guy, to not catch this. Not to mention such an American.
(Also, initial draft of the next Triad story is now complete. Revisions TK before posting.)