Chris Flynn’s latest novel, Orpheus Nine, explores the small-town fallout of a global catastrophe: something so inexplicably cruel that it forces its characters, and us, to reassess the very point of existence. How do you continue when it seems like all hope, like any chance for a future, is gone?
It’s Saturday morning in the rural Australian town of Gattan and the kids are playing football. Everything’s pretty normal. While the children play, the parents unofficially coach from the sidelines, when they aren’t sniping at each other, that is.
