Strange Stories II - The Empty Earth
Just an old man sitting alone in the dark writing stories for you. Many of my stories are strange. You might say they live in the shadows on the weird side of the street. Most of the tales start life as fragmented ideas that come to me from reading articles on quantum physics, climate change, human origins, or the birth and death of the universe. The thoughts generated by the articles are the seeds that become a Strange Story if I'm lucky. rmannon@outlook.com.
Monday, July 27, 2020
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Strange Stories II - The Empty Earth
This is the way the world ends. That could’ve been the name
of this book.
Most of the stories I write start as fragmented visions and
ideas, birthed by a dream. As soon as I wake, the dreams begin to crumble and
fall apart like clouds shredded by the wind What remains is little more than a
seed, a small, fragile thing that might, with a little imagination, become a
story. That’s how the Strange Stories II collection came about.
Strange Stories II is a book of three stories, two of them about
possible climate crisis scenarios. Both are rather long for a short story. If
word count counts (and I’m not sure it does), they are almost, but not quite, long
enough to for us to call them novellas.
The climate change tales are stories of how the world ends
told by one person who lived through it all. Reading science articles about the
climate crisis, the ways it might kill the world, sparked a dream that, in turn,
became the seeds of a story.
The scenarios examined here are remote and almost certainly
will never happen. Still, the idea of very rapid global warming or an unknown
virus emerging from a frozen sleep as the permafrost thaws were just too good
to pass up.
Strange Stories II - The Empty Earth
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