Pandemics have always been part of the apocalyptic pantheon of fiction. (ie. The Stand). But this recent one, ever-rolling, exposing the best and worst of Humanity, has uncanny timing along with climate change, fractious polarization of many societies, and yet an awakening to a more spiritual world…Humankind is at a crossroads. And we all know it, no matter how hard we want to look the other way.
The slow acceptance of this pandemic that it will lower its shouting in our “it’s another flu shot every year”, maybe a bit naive, but reveals the elasticity and denial that is hope buried in our Human wiring.
In my novel, “Even A Pandemic Can’t Stop Love & Murder”, I treat the scourge as the perfect set to play out the real scare– soulless, evil people. It is the dark castle that houses the dark humans.
And yet…love is the core of the story. While a thriller, it is also how to navigate a world that seems so hurt and negative, yet everywhere, even as I write, many people are acting out their love in a million small and large ways.