Tomorrow’s Ashes
Ten tales of apocalypse and rebirth. In this collection you will find…
A nomad surviving day-by-day in dystopian future Britain.
Nihilistic young artists on a journey to self-destruction.
A writer struggling to stop the deluge created by his own imagination.
Discover ten short stories of apocalypse and rebirth written by members of the South East London Writers Group. Each story delves into destructions, from the intimate to the global, posing the question: What happens when the end comes?
Contents of anthology
- The Rain Came by Ani Yadry
- Written by G B Russell Goto
- The Guardian by Chris Glithero
- Desire and Deceit by Christina Howell
- Young Wild Sunflowers by Lara Wüster
- Ping by Paul Campbell
- Long Walk Home by Alex Ryan
- Salamis by Louis Jagger
- Before Us by Rimika Solloway
- The Last Apocalypse by Tom Bronte
Synopses of the works in the anthology
The Rain Came The end-times are met with dreary anxiety.
Written A writer has written himself into a corner, a deluge of his own making threatens to overwhelm him unless he can fix the anomalies in his text.
The Guardian In infinite time and space, even godlike machines get curious…
Desire and Deceit A woman kissed a toad, and rather than a prince she found a sorcerer. Entranced by him, will she see what he is, and if she does, how will she escape?
Young Wild Sunflowers A contemporary short story about young artists in London. Driven by hunger for recognition and inspiration they spiral into an abyss of drug abuse and desperation.
Ping Nearly a kilometre below the surface, in a physics lab built into an old salt mine, Duncan (PhD researcher, and all round loser) makes the greatest, and quite possibly the last, scientific discovery of the age.
Long Walk Home In a post apocalyptic Britain there aren’t that many chances to rest, but when the houses of the old ones appear on the horizon, who could resist?
Salamis Life is terrible, so what could be so bad about becoming literal fodder in a war?
Before Us The new bio-domes give us hope and a way to set things right with the planet, but what’s the use if we can’t ever leave?
The Last Apocalypse An accidentally created hive-mind is torn between the outward urge and an all-too-personal mystery back on Earth.