Everything After: Stories

Every ending arrives from the wrong direction.

Everything After is a debut collection of three stories set at the far edge of the world - and the small, human things that survive there. Spare, unsettling, and by turns tender, harrowing, and darkly funny, these are tales about the lengths we go to for the people we love, and the moment devotion becomes the thing that destroys us.

On a fortified hill at the end of the world, an old survivalist keeps one rule: the gate stays shut. Then a young w...