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In the tradition of Colson Whitehead's Zone One, a visionary debut novel about shelter, escape, family, violence, and dumpster diving. It's the story of a restless group of young squatters. They've run away from their families and their pasts, questing after knowledge of their most wild selves, roaming the half-empty suburbs of America, occupying the homes of the foreclosed or vacationing, never staying in one place long enough to attract attention while shoplifting beer at the local Speedy Stop.

With her father and brother sorted into hero and her mother sorted into love interest, Jinx Dorian was expected to get placed into a good status. Hero, best friend, love interest, anything to keep the Dorian family name influential in society. However, when it came time for her sorting, Jinx was made a background character.

Desperately short of supplies, Ryan and his companions are forced to seek help at the prosperous-looking ville of Amity Springs. Hired on to retrieve a stolen relic, they quickly become caught up in an escalating power struggle between two strong-willed lady barons. Each woman covets the cache of predark goods buried in the ville's backyard. But they are not alone in their desire. And all that stands between a motherlode of buried bounty and the destructive power of unchecked greed is Ryan's grim determination to survive another day.

When Malak, the lead scientist and mentor of the Nationals home world, is suspiciously murdered, it is up to his best friend and bonding pair, Ari, to not only carry on his legacy, but the legacy of those who Malak has mentored...even if it costs her very own life. Meanwhile, all is not well on Ari’s home world. War is brewing. The Leadership in power are obsessed with an invasion from the stars above. Despite offers of peace from the aliens, the Leadership prepares for the worst, as their ominous arrival looms.

Strange dreams start to plague Malak, the lead scientist of a utopic settlement, that’s thrived for almost a millennium. As many prepare to celebrate that thousand-year milestone, the distance from their present to their past threatens to strain the very fabric of their colony, now turned a mature civilization. When a society has been made perfect, can it be made more perfect? When life has progressed well beyond mere subsistence, will folks continue to believe that it is just about mere survival?

The nation has fallen and is divided into two halves. Vince and his cohorts have a problem to deal with - in regards to the professor and the FEMA camps....

America suffered blow after blow of internal strife, work stoppages, police shootings, riots, and immobilizing national discord. The riches of the country attracted international villains who eyed the country like a wealthy home with an open front door. Hit with a massive EMP strike, the West Coast from the Pacific to the Mississippi was left a wasteland of gangs, violence, and burning homes.

Having arrived on the Nationals home world, Eli sets about to restore peace and tranquility, while judging the actions of those that sought to harm the inhabitants of the National’s home world. Even so, Eli, the mysterious Elect originally sent to Ari and Malak, is asked for an accounting of his past by Hope, the daughter of Ari and Malak.What secrets could Eli be hiding? What revelation does he hold in his hands, and is he willing to bring to light what has been shrouded in darkness for a thousand years? Does young Hope even know what she is asking?

The world changed over the past two years. It wasn’t the big bang, EMP, or comet strike so many had planned for. It was worse because it was so avoidable, like a major corporation going bankrupt out of bad decisions and neglect. When the funds dried up and all the political machinations failed, nothing remained but the people. Left to their own devices, what sprang up more resembled the Old West of the 1800s.

Laundrygate: Strange Stories About the Future is an unusual collection of short stories about the unimagined consequences of technology and the creation of new realities. Tery Spataro dreams up these wild, surreal tales and envisions the outcomes brought about by technological change and human curiosity, and imagines post-humanist worlds. The four heroines of Laundrygate experience many themes and challenges caused by these otherworldly environments.