On Reflection
A man loses his child in a car accident, and later sees his child in the rear view mirror still strapped into his car seat. He sees the child in mirrors in his house, doing things he would expect him to be doing if he were still alive. He takes to watching the son longingly when this happens.
One day, during a particularly heavy storm, after he cuts his right hand on the door latch, he sees his son's reflection in the living room mirror - but not his own. He reaches out to the mirror frame, and finds the glass has become like gel, and he passes through it as if being birthed. He enters into the mirrorred front room (verso), picks up his son and climbs back into his own front room (recto).
The verso man enters his front room and finds his son missing. He has a cut on his left hand. He panicks and calls the police. A big search goes under way and we see the man in dispair on his couch as lights from police cars light the inside of his house from the street.
His head in his hands, he sees the cooling handprint of his son reflected in the glass table in his front room.
The perspective of the story changes. We are following the verso man as he tries to discover what happened to his child.
Future War
A research paper was presented where climate change was suggested as a solution for a future ice age. Thus it made its way up through the major governments of the world, where they predicted that X metric tons of fuel was required in order to swing the effects of an ice age. This was over half of the remaining reserve.
At first, countries were hesitant to acknowledge this information which was suggested for a future none of them would live to see - until legal bodies moved to enforce the stockpiling, then they became downright hostile.
A group of experts, scientists, and politicians emerged under the banner of Advocates For The Future, and the countries responded with a war against what they titled the "thieves from the future", spearheaded by a group of vocal politicians and news pundits. It was depicted as a terrorist group from a time 5000 years in the future.
At first it was simple rhetoric and analogy, until eventually it got mixed and muddled, and members of this group started being named. At first it was a cartoon depiction of some young future-faced person, pulled from an article about speculative human evolution. Then more creative depictions began circulating in the media. The anger at the (much, much) younger generation snowballed and compounded. Oil lobbies got involved, stating it was unfair for a future generation who had not even been born yet (and thus had no human rights) should steal their oil reserves and profit. A disturbing analogy for America's crimes against other oil nations began to take hold, except this time it was the future Americans who were in the wrong for stealing from modern day Americans.
A new wave of anti-natal sentiment arose.
The members of the Advocates For The Future saw through this initial media storm, but the public sentiment (or fabricated public sentiment) overwhelmed the news cycle. In a matter of weeks, the members of the Advocates For The Future were rounded up and tried as war criminals, whereupon they were hanged on the White House lawn.