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London has fallen on hard times. Only its failing, ever more desperate leadership keep speaking of it as a City of Cities...
The whole human civilization has fallen on hard times and London is one of its few remaining pockets. All kinds of people are pulled here for the last remaining gasps of a past long gone. Those already living in the shadow of The Dam have nowhere else to go.
Six chained and battered dead horses are whipped and whining at the base of The Dam.
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Night on Earth by Amos Keppler
A London story
274 tightly spaced pages. Paperback edition. ISBN 978-82-91693-42-2
Release date June 22, 2025.
Sales price US $20, Euros 18, UK Sterling 16 (probably considerably less on some online stores). 95 000 words
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London, England in the second half of the twenty-first century, is not a pleasant place. Its structures, social and actual are crumbling, collapsing piece by piece, dust by dust. It has become even more than before a breeding ground for misery, strife and ongoing unrest. Poverty has exploded and death is frequent and often brutal. For most people it is a daily struggle to survive. They can never tell themselves with conviction that tomorrow will come.
A wall has been raised around the city, in an attempt to protect it from the rapidly rising sea. Those in charge tell an unruly population that the wall is solid craftmanship and that it will hold forever, but people know they are lying. People have finally become wise to those in charge.
Sheila Watts can smell the scent of something, something big and sinister and irresistible. She can sense it in the poisonous air, the toxic torrential rain and every worn down street and derelict building she walks. Sheila is an inspector at the London Metropolitan Police. The anxiety, the constant stirring beneath her skin is not new to her, but now, after what seems like a chance encounter, it becomes that more potent.
People claim that the hunters are dying off, that they do not have a place in modern, civilized society. Sheila knows they are wrong. Every notion, every impulse surging through her overactive mind tells her that they are. She is a hunter, and she is pulling her leash, as she starts hunting the ultimate hunter, a creature without skin and bones and blood, a soulless shadow prowling the backstreets and alleys of a city, a society beyond, way beyond the breaking point.
Sheila pulls free of all leashes and charges the prey, the beyond vicious hunter on her path. She can taste the sweet blood in her mouth.
A dark reality about the animal in us all
my really sharp fangs and claws
my collection of shorter stories.
a London urban fantasy exploring our deepest self.
my post apocalyptic novel.
comics as a novel.
my world building.
my psychotic novel.
the deepest of mysteries explored.
the ultimate tale of rebellion.
a tale of empowerment beyond any confines.
an exploration of all shades of life.
One of the most controversial series of novels ever published.
Images, text, music, art and web design Copyright Amos Keppler
First night on the web 2010-11-24
Most recently updated 2025-06-21
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The Londoners of the latter half of the 21st century call it simply The Dam. It was raised 20 years ago around the city to stem the tide of the rising sea. The operation seemed to have been marred with accidents and bad workmanship from the start. The wildest rumors speak of undercutting of budgets and a structure that was never properly completed. It leaks, it leaks all the time, and no one seems to be able to fix it.
The Dam casts its shadow over the city.
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