Rach Walton and Terry Roberts are writing/life partners who met online in a Jane Austen text-based role-playing game in 2016. Now married, they share a house together in Philadelphia with too many cats.
They are passionate about writing stories that explore queer joy and resilience in challenging circumstances.
The ‘too many cats’ (left to right): Pierre, Snax, Basil, Beans
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“And now here we are—two guys who should’ve died but didn’t.”
Genre: speculative queer romance
Word count: 110,000
Silas Turner came to Philadelphia for a whirlwind romance and law school, but months later it’s all a distant memory. An apocalyptic virus laid waste to humanity, killing everyone he loved and stranding him. Starved in more ways than one, he embarks on a food-finding mission only to be jumped for his snack cakes—his scrupulous, open-hearted ways no match for survival in a lawless city.
Alex Stanton is everything Silas is not: resourceful, walled-off, desperate for independence. He’s seen his share of death—his firefighting company charged with disposal as the virus’s body count soared. After saving Silas from attackers, a three-day quarantine sparks their friendship, complete with confusing feelings. Alex invites Silas into his small community of two dozen survivors, offering purpose and a glint of hope.
That is, until Alex’s plan to leave the city in pursuit of his own farm is overheard, and the group, feeling betrayed, casts him out. Against his better judgment, Silas follows the man he’s falling for. Medical supplies stolen, truck out of gas, they find themselves stuck on a stranger’s farm for the winter. Their growing attraction forces them to confront their fantasies about love and independence, and when Alex’s stubborn insistence to go it alone threatens to tear apart yet another community, Silas isn’t so sure he’s willing to follow again.
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