Maevie
Eighteen, grieving, and braver than she believes. The Ascension took her whole family, and she's determined to follow them.
The debut novel from M.K. Linniko
Where Static Sleeps
Novel · Dystopian YAOut November 21, 202622 days to go
The world ended in static. She refused to sleep through it.
In a decaying world lured toward a digital paradise, eighteen-year-old Maevie is the girl who got left behind, hunted by monsters and desperate to reach a pod before they reach her.
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The story
Everyone she loved ascended. Maevie was left behind.
Eighteen-year-old Maevie grew up inside the Compound, where drones dropped the rations and the speakers promised the Ascension: a single upload into a city of shimmering wonder, with no more sickness and no more bills. Her mother went first. On the day the pods opened, her father stepped inside, certain Maevie was right behind him. She wasn't. Now she hides in rotting motels and gutted malls, flinching at every scream, while the chip in her neck burns and the monsters close in.
Then she meets Arlo, a blond survivor with a crooked grin, crashing in an abandoned house, who swears he can get her to a pod. Trusting him means leaving the closet. It means fields of wildflowers and gunfire in the dark, an old man's farm behind a fence of traps, and a salt-bitten village built along a weathered pier. And with every mile closer to paradise, the static in Maevie's head grows louder.
The world
Malls gone to rot. Fields of wildflowers. A village on a weathered pier.
The story moves from the walled Compound and its patrol drones into the overgrown bones of abandoned suburbia: mildewed motels, gutted malls, a museum to the Ascension, and finally a salt-crusted village of scavenged shacks along a weathered pier. Under all of it hums the static.
The characters
Meet Maevie, Arlo and ???
Arlo
A blonde survivor with a crooked grin and a gun he's quick to raise. He's promised to get Maevie to a pod, and he isn't letting her out of his sight.
???
A yellow crown, spray-painted over tunnel mouths and highway signs. Nobody on the road will say who paints it. Everybody knows to go around.
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