Hey guys, I’m Jonny Capps. Thanks for checking out my story! I hope that you’ll enjoy it.

I’m a genre author, working mainly independently, and hoping (as all indie authors are) to get a publishing contract, so that I don’t have to do everything by myself or out of my own pocket. My first novel, The Time after Oblivion, was published through Booktrope briefly before they closed up in June, 2016. I’ve been searching for a new home for that story since then. You can read a few of my short stories on Amazon, through Kindle Unlimited. "Mother Inferior" is an urban dark fantasy tale which involves two children who become obsessed with an urban legend, and go exploring the tale’s origin. "Cupid: What’s Love got to do With It?" is a tale involving the god of love and his reaction to Valentine’s Day. "Walrus, Inc." is... a story that you might want to avoid. That’s all my current stuff, though. What you’re really interested in is "The Lies of Destiny".

Here’s a little bit about the concept: I had this idea about 10 years ago, when I realized that nuclear war would virtually eliminate humanity, but the world would continue to spin. Since the nuclear radiation couldn’t actually effect the sun’s corona (the sun is far too hot; it would burn off before it reached the center), photosynthesis would continue to happen, plants would continue growing and, after a few hundred years, the radiation would be vented out of the atmosphere naturally, thus making the planet habitable again. That’s what the Lies of Destiny is about: the world, 500 years after nuclear war.

I’ve played Fallout, read a ton of dystopean/post-apocalyptic fiction, and watched many movies and television shows which had similar concepts. I had to make sure that The Lies of Destiny was distinct and unique enough to stand on it’s own. A lot of my story focuses on science and how the radiation effected the evolutionary development of the planet. Not a whole lot of evolution can happen in 500 years, but a certain amount of adaptation is possible, even necessary. That’s what I dealt with.

DISCLAIMER: I’m not smart enough to be writing this kind of stuff. I spent months doing research, and only grasped the very basics of the most simplistic concepts. I don’t have a physics, biology, or a genetics degree. I’m very sure that a lot of the people who read this will be much more intelligent than I am, and I look forward to reading their critiques.

Ray Bradbury and Neil Gaiman are two of my biggest influences, along with Rudyard Kipling, Douglas Adams, Harlan Ellison, and Isaac Isamov. Honestly, my influences are innumerable, but those are the six that stick out in my mind.

I hope that you enjoy my story, and I look forward to reading your thoughts! Thanks for stopping by.

-JC