![]() ![]() ![]() How to build fire and watched YouTube videos of fires being lit with flint against steel, with flint against flint, with magnifying glass and sun. ![]() That was okay but we wanted to know how to go on the offensive. We Googled how to survive in wild, which yielded images of poison ivy, venomous insects, and bear tracks. We didn’t know how to do anything so we Googled everything. We were brand strategists and property lawyers and human resources specialists and personal finance consultants. A lot of things didn’t play out as they had been depicted on-screen. We’d seen it done in the movies, though no one could say which one exactly. We found one another after fleeing New York for the safer pastures of the countryside. And in the Beginning, there were eight of us, then nine-that was me-a number that would only decrease. ![]() A chapter of Severance won the 2015 Graywolf SLS Prize.Īfter the End came the Beginning. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Vice, Playboy, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Ling Ma has an MFA from Cornell University. When a plague sweeps New York, Candace Chen leaves her office job to photograph the abandoned city, then links up with a group of survivors led by power-hungry IT tech Bob, and travels with them to a place called the Facility. The following is from Ling Ma's novel, Severance. ![]()
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