I'm excited to announce my 8,000-word story, "The Witch of Washington Park," will be included in the upcoming Camden Park Press anthology Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse edited by Lyn Worthen. Think of it as the flip side of A Boy and His Dog.
The story's set in a future where cataclysmic events have created a wasteland beset by predators of human and animal form alike. Of course.
My heroine, Cassandra, once a scientist, is at work attempting to prepare an urban setting to become an agricultural oasis amid the gloom of a post-apocalyptic world, but she's in danger of giving way to despair. Until she finds a young boy who needs her care.
Nothing's easy for them, of course, and the big threat's in the form of... Well, read it and see.
This story was great fun to write. I'd been wanting to do a little more in the science fiction or speculative fiction realm. The title of the anthology really sparked my imagination.
I'll post links when preorder information becomes available. Probably coming about mid-March 2020.
