EVY 023

The world ended on a Tuesday.

That's what the stories say, anyway. That the sea boiled and turned black, the sun fell from the sky, and ionized nuclear radiation permeated each molecule of breathable oxygen. Amidst a world reconstructing from the ruins, thirteen-year-old Evy 023 has been employed as part of an arts troupe that travels to entertain the Outer Camps as a luxury to appease the poorer citizens of Base One's rule. It's just an unfortunate coincidence when the troupe is caught in a subbase revolutionary bombing while performing in New Thiago. But that is when life as Evy knows it begins to unravel: she's offered as a token of peace to the revolutionary leader, forty-year-old Lem 01. Under burgeoning authoritarian collapse and populist revolution, Evy tells her story of girlhood and sexuality, cultural horizons expanding, and a social apocalypse in already dystopian environmental failure.