The last day of spring. The fireball of the apocalypse. Ballard Grimshaw, emancipated from his prison of taut flesh. A new world of burn wounds and dark prophets, of the subterrane and horrifically shattered beauty. For it is there that Ballard beholds Anouck— at first repulsed, and then smitten by the otherworldly topology of her scars— and must make the most terrible choice of all.
Published with bonus story "A Criminal of the Near Future."
* A post-apocalyptic story of crime and punishment by Unter Grimschrund.
Unter Grimschrund writes tales of speculation and mystery with a proclivity for the dark side. His favorite writers include H.P Lovecraft, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allen Poe, J.G. Ballard, and Franz Kafka. He lives in the great brooding gloam of the Pacific Northwest with his wife and children, under supervision of the proper authorities and mental health professionals, of course.
His fiction has been professionally published under another pen name.