Writing

This is my Octavia Butler fan fiction attempt for the creative writing class I took in Fall 2019. The writing prompts were for a setting one thousand  years in the future and in a room with a window. It reaches back to Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Talents", borrowing heavily from Hugh Howey's Silo series, Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Waterknife", and also “The Circle” by Dave Eggers.                                                                                                                                                                         Pox : n., shortened name for the period of upheaval and decline, formally known as the “Apocalypse", once thought to have lasted from 2015 to 2615 C.E., presently understood as having begun well before the turn of the millennium and having no clear ending. Saffron 1.        Remembering Saffron woke in the dark thinking how this would have been her mother’s 41st birthday – September 9, 3019. She remembered