"Scaring the Stars into Submission"
by Adam "Bucho" Rodenberger
16 stories across 354pgs
16 stories across 354pgs
A blend of science fiction, magical realism, and dark surrealism spread out across a dystopian landscape.
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A great, unnamed event. A world both drowning and
engulfed in flames.
Autopsies reveal gardens of lilies sprouting up
inside the rib cages of the dead.
Clouds fall to the earth and affect the behavior of
those that come in contact with them.
Revolution and violent uprisings spread through
nations across the globe.
Twelve blind men in a basement transcribe the
history of the world as it burns down around them.
Nightmares become reality; reality becomes
nightmare.
Families turn to reluctant cannibalism in the hopes
of waiting out the horrors beyond.
Corporations push to create a new population to
replace the old one.
Philosophical musings from a balcony overlooking a
dark, empty city.
A brief moment of something good between lovers as
the world begins to slowly recover.
These are the stories before the event.
These are the stories during the event.
These are the stories after the event.
These are the stories of people coping and
surviving, fighting to live, or fighting just to be doing something, anything.
The stories in this collection are brief moments, tiny
pockets of surreal happenstance, but pure emotion. Each piece ties into the
next by the tiniest filament, each story connected to the one before and the
one after, each trying to hold on to some bit of normalcy, but failing in
spectacular and terrifying ways.
“Maybe we had
reached a point where we were forcing ourselves to believe in something better,
something different than what this current reality was spoon-feeding us on a
daily basis. The psyche can’t cope with such bleak surroundings for long.
Something inside breaks, either for good or ill, but it breaks regardless.
Maybe we were just tired of being broken and didn’t know how to go about fixing
ourselves.”
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