I'm hoping, if space allows, to include some pieces from ordinary planet in the upcoming FUTURE TENSE show. ordinary planet, my little steampunk inspired series, is so much about a post-apocalyptic world where society has regressed to victorian morality and spiritualism. I have to admit, things like Handmaid's Tale were very much on my mind as i was working on the text portions. It's also a little sci-fi, since it envisions a future non-earth based civilization, not progressive, but regressive.
"The world as we knew it was and then was not.
Men fiddled the machines into a frenzy
and still the city blackened and blitzed like a roman candle."
Eventually the text pieces will be part of my automagic manuscript, which is about 2/3 completed., which creates it own little reality and victorian-steeped world This project actually came significantly after the poems that form little apocalypse, but between this and extinction event series, you would think I write way too much about the end of the world and I probably do. Between climate change and nuclear anxieties when a complete idiot is in the vicinity of the trigger, I can't say its something I don't think about often. (and this does not even include weird diseases and zombie plagues).
