Enter Downtown

The motley team of volunteers, clashing with villagers and each other, advances west into Downtown. Evading pursuit and pressed for time, they leave everything they know and walk into the midst of the tainted zombies. This third collection, episodes 15-22, reveals how the tainted girl Bianca and her long lost friend, creative Rossi, were profoundly shaped by their lives in rural New Village versus the small town wasteland Downtown. With no backup, only the supplies they could sneak out with, they discover the woods are contaminated. An unknown disease blackens and twists plants. Tainted animals appear, and someone is following them. Tension mounts as animosity erupts from all sides. They face those who distrust them. They learn the suburbs house more tainted than imagined, and cover to stay hidden is scarce.This is the last book in "Season 1", and "Season 2" is coming up! Fans of post-apocalyptic hopepunk and supernatural fantasy will enjoy this ongoing series. If you enjoyed "Station Eleven" or "Sweet Tooth," then you'll love this character-driven saga of found family and long lost friends enduring wasteland survival with "Practical Magic" style witchcraft. Follow Rachel H. White for future episodes. Writing is almost like putting together a puzzle, only it's more like taking a bunch of old family home movies, photographs, scrapbooks, and a dollhouse, and splicing them together, digitally retouching and altering them, dubbing in celebrity voices, and hand-writing the credits until you've made them into a major motion picture.I am a writer and occasionally artist of various types of speculative fiction but mostly modern fantasy. I have loved magic, and the people and creatures who live with it and use it, all my life, and writing and drawing these people in modern environments makes it all the more real to me. I am forever striving to rise above the mundane and surround myself with wonderful people and things. My body resides in Arizona, with cat spirits, mesquite trees, and a man who is rumored to also be a dragon.