Broken World

The apocalypse isn't what it used to be. As the number of resources dwindles, survivors are getting more desperate. People are getting more violent. The world is getting darker.

Dragged away from the Magic Kingdom by the same Red Caps that helped Bloom hunt him down, Patrick Deen comes out of his injury delirium somewhere on the North Carolina coast, one thousand miles from Ben. One thousand miles from home.

To get back to Fort Doom, he'll lead a ragtag crew across a cruel and forgotten country. When they meet the charismatic Roman Marwood, they'll join forces to try to make it to the Gulf ... but it won't be smooth sailing. Lunatic scientists, sadistic pirates, casual-Friday cannibals, and slavering dusters choke the landscape, and even Patrick might not have the wits to navigate that gauntlet.

He used to understand the world. But now that world is broken.

Clayton Smith is the author of the novels Apocalypticon, Anomaly Flats, Na Akua, and Mabel Gray and the Wizard Who Swallowed the Sun, as well as the short story collections It Came from Anomaly Flats and Pants on Fire: A Collection of Lies. His short stories have been featured in Write City Magazine, Dumb White Husband, and Canyon Voices. He is cofounder of Dapper Press and a lecturer in the Business & Entrepreneurship Department at Columbia College Chicago.