![]() My first novel, The Between, was about a man who escaped death and had to face the consequences as death chased him. I am very focused on mortality in my fiction. People living forever, or at least outliving most of the population, appear in a number of your works: Is mortality as a theme just a coincidence or indicative of a larger fascination for the topic? It was difficult to pinpoint “the moment the world ends” with a plague, so this story is about the end of the world for my character.Īnd I almost forgot: I was severely blocked about where Nayima was and what she might be doing as the deadline approached, so I challenged myself to begin my story with a writing prompt I gave my students at a speculative fiction writing workshop at Voices of Our Nations (VONA): I randomly drew the words “trees” and “deep fryer.” That prompt kickstarted the story. ![]() I wanted to follow the character from my previous story, Nayima, after she fled for safety. I chose a plague in my first story because a pandemic is one of my true-life concerns, given how small the world has become and how often our population has been ravaged by disease historically. I was intrigued by the entire idea for the Triptych, since I am naturally drawn to apocalyptic fiction as a writer. This story first appeared in The End is Now, volume 2 of The Apocalypse Triptych, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey.
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