Traverse space, time, and alternate dimensions
through England’s six fictional universes.
When world leaders returned home from a summit with what they thought was a simple cold, no one imagined it would lead to yet another world war. We progressed a great deal in the hundred-plus years since the last ended, and we'd come close enough to Armageddon the last go round. Humanity didn't stand a chance this time.
The Gyre Turns Again is an anthology of flash fictions set within the same universe as The Icarus Series, due to begin publication in January 2024. The stories are set anywhere from a few months before WWIII broke out to the start of the series twenty years later, featuring a broad cast of characters from a variety of settings within this version of a potential future apocalypse and its aftermath.
The Gyre Turns Again
The surface world imploded when she was a little girl. It was a fact Pyrrha knew well, yet she was ill-prepared to see the remaining devastation firsthand. It felt like the little boy she'd seen on her first salvage mission would haunt her forever.
Compassion for the survivors and rage at the complacency shown by her parents' generation fuel her determination to see change. She wanted to do something, but Pyrrha never intended to become the face of a movement.
Meanwhile, Asa, a former biochemical engineer within the Atlantic Coalition, struggles to aid her new community's continued survival as she works to develop a vaccine that will allow her to return home. It's too bad roving bands of religious zealots want her dead, and Jacob Pound, leader of the powerful East Woods community just wants her