❝Good morning. This is Target, how can I help you?❞ ❝Why do I have the sudden urge to kill my family?❞ ❝...Woah...well...shit. Ma'am, I think you dialed the wrong number.❞ ❝No. I dialed correctly. Are you any help?❞ ❝...No sé qué decir a esta chica loca.❞ In which a girl named Farah calls Target and meets a boy named Chance. Best Rank : #1 in Short Story (8/27/16)

"The Mainland" is an intimate narrative that explores a mother-daughter relationship; they are stranded on an island after an apocalypse had demolished their home. It is evident that the narrative thus focuses on the events that transpire during the journey of getting to the idealistic "Mainland". Comparatively, the chosen inspiration text is The Road by Cormac McCarthy because both narratives stem from the minds of two personas experiencing the consequences of appreciating civilisation, due to the dystopian circumstance they are engulfed in.