Licence to Feel

The future is happy. Mandatory happy. You do not smile, the Joy Police in their lemon suits “recalibrate” you in a golden spa chair. Nice and easy. Cecil Von Wittershaw runs the game. He is rich, stylish, borderline obsessive. Think custom made suits, cigars from Havana, and a financial portfolio tighter than his hair part. Then bang. The Joy Police show up with bad news. There has been a breach in the system. Someone wants to steal the real stuff and wipe joy off the map. In this world, emotions are luxury goods. They come in glass capsules, pure, powdered, and priced higher than gold. Joy, ambition, desire, just pick your poison. Whoever controls the last batch does not just run the market. They run humanity.

Jasmina Kimova is the author of Licence to Feel. She is a creative director and writer known for building narrative worlds, blending humor, sharp observation, and cinematic storytelling. Her work uses absurdity to reflect the systems we already live inside. She writes playful fiction that makes people laugh first, then think, and reminds us that being human is still the strangest thing we do.