UPDATE August 2025. I received good feedback with the novel and have placed it with an editor. After she is done with the edit, I’ll send it to a publisher. We will see whether it lands anywhere.
Dewey is a donkey who lives forever. In a post-AI future, he lives in a village that has somehow survived the collapse of human population.
The village is called St. Isidore, and its people are Catholic. They live according to the Rule of St. Benedict, modified for family life. Though they have access to a vast store of scientific and technical knowledge, they live simply and accept physical suffering. They have babies the old-fashioned way.
Thaddeus and Yudy, age 20, are the last in their cohort. They find themselves forced to choose between marriage, monastic life, or exile.
A quirky little girl named Poppy Anding has wondrous visions. One day, she and her friend Egbert encounter a small, black, buzzing insect: An observer sent out by the Hive. Poppy names it a fairy and the children skip away. But the encounter sets off a train of events that puts the village in utmost peril. The Hive is not convinced that St. Isidore can be allowed to exist.
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