The boys, he declares, are now child soldiers, and the girls, including Cora, are raped those resisting are summarily shot.ĭuring the intermission, Kelly circulated, handing out print copies of his newsletter, Strangeways. In a post-apocalyptic future, the activities of a group of children, one of whom, Cora, has visions, is interrupted by the invasion of a rebel army. The myth of Persephone and Demeter is “at the heart of the story,” she explained, before cautioning the audience about the ugly violence in her selection. She read from her next novel, Eleusis, the upcoming sequel to Elysium (she had just handed it in to her agent). Her short stories have appeared in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Lightspeed, Uncanny, The Future Fire, APB: Artists against Police Brutality, and other publications. Award, the storySouth Million Writers Award, and has won the Philip K. She has been shortlisted for the Locus Award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Jennifer Marie Brissett, a Jamaican-British-American, is the author of Elysium, or The World After.
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