We Grow Accustomed to the Dark (A Lesbian Post-Apocalyptic Story) [Kindle Edition]

Sarah Diemer (Author)

Book Description

The Rapture begins quietly one June afternoon, while girlfriends Kate and Celia are walking home from school. Everyone in their neighborhood seems to have disappeared into thin air, but as the two girls try to make sense of what's happening, they find that they're not truly alone. Angels descend from the sky with golden wings and flaming eyes...and begin to hunt them.

"We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" is a post-apocalyptic short story about love and loyalty in dark times. "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" is part of the forthcoming collection LOVE DEVOURS: TALES OF MONSTROUS ADORATION, Sarah Diemer's first anthology, a collection of queer dark fantasy and science fiction stories.

Product Details

• File Size: 150 KB
• Print Length: 28 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008U1CXPQ
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,397 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling and dark January 8, 2013

By Katie

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

The plot of this story was a shocking and original concept. Of course, navigating a post-apocalyptic world is always going to be terrifying, but Diemer writes about it in a way that is dark and sinister. Something is terribly wrong in the world, and what is going on is not what it appears to be. The main characters struggle to survive and make sense of their new, chaotic world. This story honestly chilled me in a way that a traditional horror story could not. Reading this story gave me a thrill.

More About the Author

Sarah Diemer is an award-winning author of lesbian young adult (YA), speculative fiction. She lives in a purple-doored cottage in Western New York with her beloved wife, several furred creatures and a few mischievous pixies. She enjoys covering things in glitter (and putting them on Etsy), and is a professional fairy. She is addicted to tea.

Her debut novel, The Dark Wife, the YA, lesbian retelling of the Persephone myth, won the 2012 Golden Crown Literary Award for Speculative Fiction, and was nominated for a Parsec Award (first two chapters of the audiobook). Sarah also had the honor of winning the Kissed by Venus "Fresh Voices" Short Story Competition.

She writes her lesbian adult fiction under the pen name Elora Bishop, including the Sappho's Fables: Lesbian Fairy Tales series, which she co-writes with her wife, author Jennifer Diemer.