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quote from Kate Taylor's dystopian fiction novel WHEN THE LAST OCEAN DIES


A year after the Great Sickness forced the villages of River Valley into isolation, the quarantine is finally lifted. Aquia, the adopted son of Anahita’s spiritual leader, and Yewen, a former monk from the Monastery of the Trees, are sent to tabulate the living and the dead, and to gather their stories for the official ledgers. But the world they were sent to record no longer exists. They discover entire villages died from the sickness, while others survived by isolating themselves even from each other. The further they travel, the more they learn about the survivors and their villages through their art, their music, and their spiritual changes. And soon, their experiences begin to change them as well, and they start to question everything they once knew as true.



We won't know for at least a few more years how the pandemic changed us, but many of the changes will show up in art, literature, and music for many years to come. Much of it was either created or started during the quarantine. But it's early and we have yet to see what comes from the realization the previously known world no longer exists. The solitude created opportunities to explore inner worlds, something creatives knew well, but others did not. As the characters in my book discovered, there were good demons and there were bad demons who demanded a voice. I have hope a world that confronted both during the same moment in time, and for the same reasons, will have a profoundly positive effect on who we eventually become.


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