Forget what you know about poetry…we’re counting down to an apocalypse.

On a planet that suffers from two suns above and an overly pragmatic culture below, people have evolved to live underground, eat minerals, and suppress creativity. Their society is focused on supporting a war with an alien race that their soldiers strangely fail to remember. Meanwhile, unexplained phenomena play out in the sky, and a religion is growing around a paleontological find and a group of mystics uncovering more than what’s been buried underground.

Having figured out that the end is near, a journalist is faced with the angst of too much information and not enough power. Collecting and preserving the stories of the planet’s people becomes the Journalist’s focus. Each poem is a different character sharing the details of their job, describing not only the intricacies of their profession but also revealing bits of the larger story as well as their own humanity. Together these twenty voices weave a tale of a civilization concealing smoldering secrets and a hidden intergalactic political agenda, all while using clever scientific, military, artistic and literary references to tie them to our own world in unexpected ways.

You already know what becomes of the planet, but what happens to the people? Will they heed the warnings, revolt, and hop on the next flight-ship before it’s too late? Or will these interviews be all that remain?

Purchase a copy in store or online at the following link to support Rubber Rose:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/interviews-from-the-last-days-christina-loraine/9949887?ean=9781646068357

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Christina Loraine is a fine artist and writer living in Kankakee County, Illinois. She studied philosophy at Western Illinois University and is now the Information Services Coordinator for a public library, leading a creative writing group and instructing art classes. One of her 10-minute plays has been produced, and she has a published novel-in-verse. On the Run Fiction and Eye to the Telescope have published her work online. Christina’s acrylic paintings have accumulated many accolades over her eighteen years of creating. Still, she has a penchant for plein air oil painting and has been known to wander the countryside with a backpack full of gear, pausing to paint the scenery and listen to the earth. Find her on Instagram @citrinesatellite.

Alan Webber is the owner of a nationwide transportation and logistics company. He is also a newspaper columnist, blogger, and weekly podcast host. When not writing or running his business, Alan spends time futilely honing golf skills, reading, or spending time with his grandchildren. He resides in both Kankakee County, Illinois, and Maricopa County, Arizona.

Learn more about Alan at https://www.webberswhippingpost.com/

Purchase a copy of Roll Me Away to support Rubber Rose at the link below!

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Tori Barney is Columbia College Chicago graduate and has been published in literary magazines such as Hair Trigger and Study Breaks. Her most recent book “Rough Draft” is a collection of poems inspired by a writing challenge to write one poem a day for twenty one days. She’s had a love for literature for as long as she can remember and is excited for all the experiences to come within the writing world. You can check out some of her other work here:

https://studybreaks.com/author/tori-barney-columbia-college-chicago/

You can now purchase a copy of Rough Draft in store at Rubber Rose, or online at Bookshop.org!

https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=tori+barney

Gregory M. Thompson is a horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer with a variety of credits in online and print magazines and anthologies (see the Works page). Writing since the early 1990s, he began in screenwriting and made the transition to fiction and comic writing in the early 2000s (though he does still write screenplays occasionally.) You can do the math on his age. Influences include Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, and Scott Snyder. You can catch him making appearances at comic-cons (as an attendee and also in Artist/Author Alleys) and other types of shows and events.

Learn more about Gregory and his works at the website below:

https://nightcrynovel.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3rHVUPc7YYHmc8susW_BfBySIrpyr-vY6nT3ATXzthvFmpYBN9cU6MZok_aem_AcpfaVHCGFUpHWekIYmqildK0DtM2GqqYnLzZuBsqIqGmS5gXmcxf46uVgh6ie0ezAUbBS30JMteDAiyVCWDUkqE

You can purchase Nightcry, Horde Trilogy and The Golden Door from Bookshop.org to support Rubber Rose! https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=gregory+m+thompson