Sep 9, 2026
Dystopian in the desert? Sign me up! Seriously, listen in while Lauren Smyth and I chat all things "glowy" in the desert!
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Not a lot of people write books about the boring Mojave Desert. When they do, I take note. Especially when it's a super-cool dystopian delight! EEEP!
All That Glows by Lauren Smyth
The apocalypse didn’t take everyone. It
just took us.
Ever since the rain turned green, Kyrie’s world has been bathed in
glowing dust. She packs it into old mascara tubes and sells it as
makeup alongside dried cacti, threadbare blankets, and long-expired
canned food. There’s not much else to do when everyone outside
Kyrie’s small town in the Mojave Desert died from the
plague-bearing rain ten years ago.
Everyone—except the man in the rubber mask.
He’s on the dangerous side of the fence, huffing infected air like
it’s nothing, babbling to Kyrie about college and umbrellas and
yogurt and everything else that disappeared the day it rained. He
doesn't seem to know that the world ended, and he has no
explanation for how he survived the apocalypse. But Kyrie doesn't
believe in ghosts.
She can’t trust him, but he’s right about one thing: Towns without
secrets aren’t surrounded by chain-link fences. And chain-link
fences won’t keep out the plague forever.
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