War's End: The Storm - Bonus Content
Welcome! If you are like me, you like falling down rabbit holes and learning the back stories, seeing the faces of characters, and even discussing a book in book club. I will be building out each of my extended content over time. But here is what I have for The Storm. I hope you enjoy it!
Jess Aaronson
Why I Wrote War's End
The Storm was my first foray into fiction. And if you have looked around the website, you will see that it was the first of many. Growing up in the 1970s here in the U.S. at the tail end of the Cold War, it felt like everywhere you turned, the threat of a nuclear war and societal collapse was just around the corner. In our literature, in our movies, in our books.
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Add in living with a parent who was a prepper (well, sort of, he kept a lot of MREs lying around and absolutely loved having guns), and I grew up thinking it was just a matter of time. Add to that a lot of trauma, teen pregnancy, poverty, and two divorces into the mix, and you get a lot of fodder for the imagination. Or at least I did.
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I wanted to work through that, and while The Storm deals with truly awful situations (societal collapse, civil war, separation/dissolution of family, and physical/sexual abuse), it also gives a message of hope. I hope that is what shines through as you read the series.
In all things, we have a choice of how to respond to adversity. Things can break us. And it is okay to lie down and let the pain run through you. But we owe it to ourselves, and the unknown future, to rise again. That, in essence, is why I wrote the War's End series.
Chris Aaronson