Blood on the Milky Way
Ever since I saw
Mad Max on Channel 4 when I was in elementary school, I’ve had a weakness for
the post-apocalyptic genre. I remember, it aired on a Friday, so my mother
actually let me stay up late and watch the whole thing. Even edited for
television and badly-dubbed, after that first chase scene, I was hooked on the
series and the genre (I’m even looking forward to Mad Max 4: Fury Road with Tom Hardy).
I suppose, then,
it’s rather fitting that my first published post-apocalyptic story should take
place in Australia. Set in the
world of Andrez Bergen’s Tobacco-Stained
Mountain Goat, “Blood on the Milky Way” is about the illegal milk trade in Melbourne, the last city on earth.
Think Robert Mitchum’s Thunder Road
meets Mad Max, only the souped-up
automobile is loaded down with milk instead of whiskey.
It was a story
that was a lot of fun to write and I think it’ll be a lot of fun for you to
read. If the premise of my story interests you at all, I really hope you’ll
check it out. And if it doesn’t, you should still check it out—the anthology is
chocked full of a wide variety of stories by a host of great writers.
