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“Keep Calm and Carry On” first appeared as a motivational poster produced by the British government during World War II. It spoke to a unique British stoicism, a patient self-control that might well be useful as the end of the world unfolds.
Author Details
Michelle Ann King is a short story writer from Essex, England. Her stories of fantasy, science fiction, crime, and horror have appeared in over a hundred different venues, including Strange Horizons, Interzone, Black Static, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Her collections are available in ebook and paperback from Amazon and other online retailers, and links to her published stories can be found at her website: www.transientcactus.co.uk Story Notes for Light Winds with a Chance of Velociraptors I love a good apocalypse story, especially that ones that focus on ordinary people. A lot of the time, the people who step up and fix things are scientists, soldiers, or superheroes —larger than life characters who have lots of power and influence (and are often young, fit, and gorgeous)— and I thought it would be fun if, this time, it was a bunch of old folks in a retirement home who got to save the world. It also tickled me enormously to have the person behind it all be not a supervillain, psychopath, or entitled billionaire, but just a cantankerous old woman from Croydon who liked animals more than people.
Light Winds with a Chance of Velociraptors, by Michelle Ann King
Author Details
Michelle Ann King is a short story writer from Essex, England. Her stories of fantasy, science fiction, crime, and horror have appeared in over a hundred different venues, including Strange Horizons, Interzone, Black Static, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Her collections are available in ebook and paperback from Amazon and other online retailers, and links to her published stories can be found at her website: www.transientcactus.co.uk Story Notes for Light Winds with a Chance of Velociraptors I love a good apocalypse story, especially that ones that focus on ordinary people. A lot of the time, the people who step up and fix things are scientists, soldiers, or superheroes —larger than life characters who have lots of power and influence (and are often young, fit, and gorgeous)— and I thought it would be fun if, this time, it was a bunch of old folks in a retirement home who got to save the world. It also tickled me enormously to have the person behind it all be not a supervillain, psychopath, or entitled billionaire, but just a cantankerous old woman from Croydon who liked animals more than people.
