The Dying Lights

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The Dying Lights is the opening short story in a series of occasional short tales.

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The world we know has passed, yet there are survivors.

 

In the ruins, in tunnels under the streets, what is left of mankind tries to survive. Amidst the slumped towers, the streets are overrun with packs of wild dogs and other feral vermin, but the true danger is above.

 

In the sky are not just clouds, nor stars and constellations, but the flyers who came here and brought doom. 

The world is overrun, yet there is hope and the seeds of life. Amidst the struggle to survive, mankind tries to rise again and retake our world.  

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About the author

Colin Taber

Born in 1961, Lee Edward Sheppard started writing his first novel at the age of 10, but gave up after two pages, when he found he had already run out of adjectives.

Not fazed by this early setback, he instead made big plans to do well in school, finish University and get a good job to set him up for life. Unfortunately, in 1977 a good friend introduced him to a brand new game that had just come out called “Dungeons & Dragons” and his fate was sealed.

It was his desire to combine his twin loves of writing and role-playing that lead to him being published in “Dragon”, “Dungeon” and “Polyhedron” magazines, before first meeting Colin Taber in the mid 1990s, back when they both still had hair. Working together on “Australian Realms” magazine, their friendship and love of all things wordy has continued to the present day.

It hasn’t all been about multi-sided dice though. Lee has also worked, with varying levels of success, as a Customs Officer, a Corporate Trainer, a computer fix-it guy, and even as a professional actor/improviser. Whatever he has done professionally however, he has always found himself inexorably drawn towards a blank page, the desire to tell stories an addiction that has yet to be satisfied.

Lee currently shares his home in Perth, Western Australia, with his wife of 28 years, his daughter and her boyfriend, and two hilarious cats.