The Worst Was This

Work:: The Worst Was This (S01688440361)

"... if he thrive and I be cast away, The worst was this: my love was my decay." ~-William Shakespeare, Sonnet 80. A great war has scorched the Earth, destroying, and contaminating everything in its path. Plants cannot grow, world economies have collapsed, and with no goods available for purchase, money has no value. Lack of food and medicine has allowed a syphilitic plague to run rampant through the surviving human population, causing people to lose noses, tongues, ears, eyes, hands, feet, and other unmentionable appendages.. In a pub, three sisters run a gruesome black market business. Will, a beautiful young actor wanders into the sisters' den to meet with Chris, a dis?gured poet until now presumed dead. A tangled web of lies begins to entrap them, and hearts are shredded, both ?guratively and literally...

Author

Matte O'Brien

Listing:: L326943982

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