NEVЯLAND is the story of Laynie Price: 13-years-old, a member in good standing of the Y Queens, top of the eighth-grade food chain, and excited about the end of the junior high school year and becoming an official High School Freshman.
Until she awakens one morning to a world in which everyone 18-years-old and over has disappeared during the night--mother, father, brother, teachers, cops, store clerks--all adults.
They're all gone, and nearly 5,000 children from newborns to 17-years-old are left to fend for and defend themselves as chaos, hysteria, and insanity take over the once peaceful small town of Junebug, Oklahoma.
There's no escape: An invisible wall along Junebug's city limits imprisons the thousands of children, and to add to her terror, Laynie figures out they truly are the last people on Earth.
Gangs, injuries, illness, hysteria--all confront Laynie and her friends.
And if the Wall prevents Laynie and the others from escaping Junebug, then it also prevents anything from getting in as well.
What will happen when the food begins to run low and the water doesn't flow?
Unlike other post-apocalyptic tales, NEVЯLAND does not have recombinant DNA or Zombie story lines.
Just what are we teaching our children, and how would they behave if left totally on their own.
NEVЯLAND is more of an updated telling of Lord of the Flies than a another tired rehashing and reserving of Night of the Living Dead.
NEVЯLAND -- The Blog allows you to watch a Work-in-Progress, to witness the inner thoughts of a writer as idea is taken from a flash of thought and into the harsh and frustrating world of story crafting--story plotting, character development, and all the joy, angst, and fear in writing a novel.
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Suffer the Children.
NEVЯLAND -- This is the End.
Take care,
Larry Mike
