Briarwood

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Author: TR Clayton ISBN: 9781476308043
Publisher: TR Clayton Publication: July 28, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: TR Clayton
ISBN: 9781476308043
Publisher: TR Clayton
Publication: July 28, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Briarwood is a tight clover of cul-de-sacs adrift in a sprawl of office parks and strip malls. It's a development that bottles the affordable comfort and easy commute that is the birthright of every 21st Century American - a development that allows dreamless men and women the illusion of success in the face of lives that have settled into flat trajectories. On a Saturday morning, it all disappears. Electricity is vanquished. Cellphones connect to nowhere. Radios and televisions beam nothing but dead air. And, most ominously, Cincinnati sits under a cloud of smoke, only twenty miles away.

Norman Quinn finds himself in the middle of the growing decline. He is a man consumed by loss and pursued by memories of mirth and success. What he discovers upon leaving Briarwood is bleaker and more malevolent than anything he could have imagined. Over the course of the day, the collapse of society inspires brutality, hopelessness, and resignation as Norman and his countrymen struggle to stay alive, facing desperation and violence at every turn. Their biggest foe proves not to be the forces of evil that roam the exurbs, but the dejection that rots from within. For some, the decline and fall of the United States becomes an unburdening; it becomes an escape from lives that were freighted with disappointment and fear long before the ash fell and the cities burned.

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Briarwood is a tight clover of cul-de-sacs adrift in a sprawl of office parks and strip malls. It's a development that bottles the affordable comfort and easy commute that is the birthright of every 21st Century American - a development that allows dreamless men and women the illusion of success in the face of lives that have settled into flat trajectories. On a Saturday morning, it all disappears. Electricity is vanquished. Cellphones connect to nowhere. Radios and televisions beam nothing but dead air. And, most ominously, Cincinnati sits under a cloud of smoke, only twenty miles away.

Norman Quinn finds himself in the middle of the growing decline. He is a man consumed by loss and pursued by memories of mirth and success. What he discovers upon leaving Briarwood is bleaker and more malevolent than anything he could have imagined. Over the course of the day, the collapse of society inspires brutality, hopelessness, and resignation as Norman and his countrymen struggle to stay alive, facing desperation and violence at every turn. Their biggest foe proves not to be the forces of evil that roam the exurbs, but the dejection that rots from within. For some, the decline and fall of the United States becomes an unburdening; it becomes an escape from lives that were freighted with disappointment and fear long before the ash fell and the cities burned.

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