“Boiling Point” was published in the anthology Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners, edited by Michael Bailey, alongside such writers as Chuck Palahniuk, Ai Jiang, Eugen Bacon, Cynthia Pelayo, Laird Barron, Elizabeth Massie, and many others.
I haven’t done a tally of where the rest of the stories fall in the three categories of the subtitle, but mine falls in the third — bad manners. And strangely, it didn’t occur to me until the day after Barry Malzberg died that it contains echoes of his own short story “Corridors.”
Long Division was published on December 12, 2024 and is
available as an ebook or a dead tree version.