~Falling Sky Blurb~
Following
a devastating world war, the surface of the planet has been covered in a
substance called Dust, a weapon that can break down the physical make up of
entire cities, reducing them to rubble and preventing citizens from rebuilding
their lost metropolises for several years. In order to survive, humanity has
taken refuge in crowded, underground cities.
Ian
Blum is a 15 year old boy living in one such city. His crippling social anxiety
confines him to a solitary life at home, while his parents are away at their
jobs. The person he interacts with the most is his home school professor,
Michael Wasley. One night, Ian is visited by a mysterious figure in a dream.
The man warns Ian of a great earthquake that will destroy the cities, killing
all of the inhabitants. The man charges Ian with the task of getting everyone
out.
Soon
after, Ian finds out that he isn't the only one who has had this dream and
reluctantly joins a group of rebels who has made it their mission to drive
everyone from the cities for their own safety, however, no one believes in the
stranger's prophecy. Ian and the rebels must find a way to get the people to
safety at any cost.
~Excerpt~
By the time the war shook society to its very core, it
appeared that everyone had forgotten why the nations were so intent on ripping
the planet apart. People knew the reasons of course; there were many of them,
but most seemed convoluted to Michael. Reports of impending doom, as
civilization began to collapse, drowned out his sixteenth birthday. The fallout
from the war would eventually make it impossible for humans to live in the
cities for much longer. Emigration to space was the most attractive solution to
most; it was a persistent pipe dream ever since writers and filmmakers had
presented it to the world as a possibility. A small group of politicians even
pushed for the move to space without thinking about the constraints: The United
States government completely dissolved the space program several years before
to free up more funds that could be spent toward winning the war, and the
limited number of people who could actually travel into space. The majority of
the population would be left in the radioactive dust while the elite (which
included the politicians that pushed for the move) would be among the stars,
safe, but with nowhere to go.
Michael learned all of this over the course of several weeks
from news programs and televised, one-sided debates. The Six Year War had
effectively ended and every nation had lost to a dark cloud of bloodlust.
During the first week of the new crisis, Michael wrote a journal to record the
experience.
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~Meet the Author!~
James Patrick Riser is the author of Syndrome and Falling Sky, two novellas published by Wild Child Publishing. His short fiction has appeared in the, now defunct, online horror fiction magazine, Necrotic Tissue, and his poetry has appeared in the online poetry journals, Pif magazine, Dead Beats and Four and Twenty Poetry. He lives in Colton, California.
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