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The Acridity Effect
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Ongoing, First published Sep 19, 2013
Humanity’s in the middle of a war and, for all the residents of Training Camp 19 know, they are the only ones left to fight it. 
At the age of nineteen, Iskra’s commanding officers—and only form of guidance she’d ever had—died, leaving her with a base full of children and more responsibility than she should have to shoulder. Stranded in the middle of the desert, caged in a forgotten underground military base, the children of Training Camp 19 were forced to grow under their own shoddy supervision, unable to contact outside sources for either aid or knowledge. With no one having sought them out for a little over three years, will Iskra and her crew face the horrific fact that humanity’s either forsaken them or been wiped out completely?  Or will this—and every worldview they’ve ever held—be disrupted by the drop of a pin?
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|WATTYS 2022 WINNER - HORROR| Shawn, a convicted criminal, never thought she'd see the sun again, let alone call another star system her home. When she's offered an out from her prison sentence, she embarks on a dangerous interstellar expedition along with 18 of Earth's most intelligent criminals. Their task is to set up a base on a supposedly habitable planet and prepare it for colonization. Although the planet has liquid water and a breathable atmosphere, it is believed to host only microbial life. However, upon arriving, Shawn and the rest of the colonists learn that assumption was grossly incorrect. In a brutal attack from rampaging wildlife, everyone but Shawn and four other colonists are killed. The five survivors retreat to the cavernous network beneath the ground seeking safety, but they soon come to a terrible discovery. These caves aren't ordinary caves, and they are no safer down under than they were on the surface. [][][] This was originally my entry for the 2021 Open Novella Contest, and it received an honorable mention! It has now been expanded into a full length novel. I used prompt number 53: "When wildlife starts rampaging, all the humans are forced underground. However, they come to a terrible discovery that being underground is no safer than being on the surface."