REFUGEES AND OTHERS【翻译】

Campbell, Erin. "Refugees" and Others. Master of Arts (English-Creative Writing),
December 2016, 75 pp.
Refugees, a novel in progress, begins in the collective first-person with a group of people
who live on the same residential street of middle-class homes in an east coast American city and
are experiencing the most exquisitely vivid aurora borealis to appear in recorded history. But
they quickly learn that this gorgeous wonder is a harbinger of civilization’s demise and possibly
the end of all life on the planet, because the solar storms causing the sky’s fantastic nightly
coloring is also slowly stripping away the atmosphere and leeching oxygen into space. This “we”
narrative switches to third person, moving between two characters—Julie and Amira—as the
narrative moves forward. The first chapter covers the first few months of this apocalyptic crisis,
and Julie and Amira are central as they are forced decide if they still have the strength and the
will to even attempt survival in these new and brutal circumstances. The second chapter, also
told in third person, picks up seventeen years in the future with Aya, Amira’s daughter who was
six during the initial atmospheric disaster. A small group survived in an underwater refuge,
recently discovered the atmosphere above had healed over time, and sent an excursion group,
including Aya, to evaluate the changing environment. The third chapter returns to the group of
neighbors—including Julie and Amira—seventeen years prior, immediately following the
catastrophic event as their story continues to unfold. This chapter opens, like the first chapter, in
the “we” voice, tracing the movement of the group south in a search for help and a desperate,
though orderly, effort toward survival. This next phase of their journey introduces fresh conflicts
and new characters and points to approaching challenges and the persistent hope for survival.
Two short stories, unrelated to the novel and each other and entitled "Awake" and "Her," are also
included.
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Copyright 2016
by
Erin Campbell
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
PART I. REFUGEES, A NOVEL................................................................................................... 1
Synopsis .............................................................................................................................. 2
Chapter One ........................................................................................................................ 4
Chapter Two...................................................................................................................... 28
Chapter Three.................................................................................................................... 40
PART II. SHORT STORIES ........................................................................................................ 54
Awake ............................................................................................................................... 55
Her..................................................................................................................................... 65

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