Hello everyone! Thank you for checking out Babel. I wrote this story over the span of a few months. Although I love writing, this was the first story I have actually finished, edited, and feel confident enough to put it out there.

Synopsis

Construction worker and military veteran Roger Anders never wanted to be a prophet.

After a social collapse due to a sudden and complete breakdown of all verbal and written communication, Roger returns to his boyhood New England home to ride out the catastrophic event. When a group of refugees unexpectedly arrive in his Connecticut neighborhood, he begins to experience mysterious prophetic visions. Now, Roger, a natural loner and skeptic, is reluctantly tasked with teaching the new community how to survive in a world without words. However, they soon learn that even mysterious guidance isn’t enough to protect them from the world outside of their community. BABEL is a character-driven exploration of one man’s acceptance of a world he never imagined existed.

About the Story

The idea for Babel came from a conversation my husband and I had outside of a restaurant in May, 2015. In some ways, it is a modern retelling of the Tower of Babel myth, and in other ways, it’s a story inspired by literary post-apocalyptic books like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

About the Author

Melissa spends her days designing roads and using engineering for good, rather than evil. Melissa lives with her husband Russ and their cat Noah, who is the true definition of a gentleman: wears white gloves and doesn’t have to work.