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212 pages, Paperback
First published September 6, 2018
Funny, witty, exciting and engaging!
As for Stella King, she was unexpectedly pregnant with the unborn child of the Beast.
It could have happened to anyone.
Here is the story of how six unlikely women changed the fate of the world.The Yellow Puff-Ball Mushroom Cloud and its corresponding yellow fog is creeping its way across America.
"Has no one been out of town lately? It could be the end of the world for all you know."Citizens are slowly succumbing to its inexplicable and inescapable influence - whether it be their minds or their bodies, everyone is changing in one way or another.
The Beast could fool the best of them, and he almost always got his way.Stella King, along with five other women, stumble their way through the apocalypse and finding the strength in each other. Their group may be unconventional, but together they must rise to fight the good fight.
But maybe not this time.
"The undocumented and disabled. The forgotten ones. The left behinds. The last will be first. It's our turn. All of you need to fight together, every which way you can, and then some, and then some more, and even after you do all that, you will probably fail, and then die."If you can't already tell, I adored this one.
"Your advice feels problematic..."
[Stella's] little pink pocket Bible fell open and she read: THE BEAST STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN ... TO DEVOUR HER CHILD AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN.It's hilarious, to the point and above all, doesn't rely on horribly abrasive humor to force a laugh.
"Well, that can't be good," she murmured. "Honestly I had no idea that religious people had such violent beliefs."
Just when both of Josefina Guzman’s feet were safely back on the ground, some shapes made their way out of the muck and reeds. The shapes were trotting toward her. Her eyes were bad and she thought they were dogs until they stopped right in front of her: a fox and three raccoons, traveling together. Their eyes glowed. They nodded their small animal heads wisely. Josefina Guzman half-expected them to speak. Next she wondered if they were rabid. She wasn’t sure whether to step toward them boldly to scare them off, or to run away. Before she could decide, the fox let out a cry that sounded like laughter and the four creatures ran away together into the dark.
“That’s right, scat, get out of here,” Josefina Guzman said.
But she felt disgruntled to be so easily dismissed by these creatures. Also it worried her to be talking out loud to animals.
“It was a town mostly populated with elderly John Wayne fans and their caregivers.”
"Is this the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper?"