Short Stories
Access to various short stories by Heather Gold. Both published and unpublished.
I can still feel the vibration that reverberated through the earth the day it happened. The Cleave, they called it. Both the Greenland and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed in the same week. I remember the slow rising hysteria as the media outlets flooded our streams with the images. I remember the day we lost London, the day the power failed. The death, the drowning, the despair. But most of all, I remember the ice cold water pursuing us like a relentless predator, its frigid fingers reaching out to pluck us from our lives and carry us into the sea to be devoured for our sins. Those of us who survived converged on the high ground of our broken little island, cold, hungry and without hope.
After the Cleave
After The Cleave
Heather Gold
A short story anthology, encompassing the future of our planet in various dystopian worlds.
The Cleave brought death and disease, however it also brought hope for a new world, a cleaner world, a world without pain.
Discover a post apocalyptic world that seethes with the horrors of what we have done to the world, while trying desperately to pin all their hope and ideals on a chosen few, but not the people you would expect.
- Sophie's Story
- Alison's Story
- Pheonix's Story
- Many more to come...
Storyline
- 2097
The Cleave creates chaos across the globe. How will the human race survive?
- 2099
Exiled Sophie works to save the world the Cleave left her with. Using her skills to shape the future she sees.
- 2100
Phoenix works on a refugee camp keeping the water running but knows he has the knowledge and the skills to make peoples lives here better. Why won’t anyone let him help?
- 2147
The world recovers slowly but humanity has become more greedy than ever. The top 2% controlling the food, water and restricting the knowledge needed to create the rebellion the people really need.
- 2203
Alison needs to feed her children but the things she must do may sever her bond with them forever. She will need to make the hard choice in order to fuel the insurrection the world sorely needs.
