How We Survive

We let our own demise into our homes, playing with our children, and cuddled it in our beds. Once beneath our skin, it merely had to mutate. 

When their father dies under mysterious circumstances, Loon, a city defense strategist, receives a call from their mother. A cat-borne parasite is spreading across the country. People are transforming into predators. Cities are collapsing. Loon needs to leave now. 

There’s one problem. Their partner, Mara, comes with them. Eighteen years together, and Loon was finally ready to leave. But with the world burning, taking them along feels like the only choice. So they set out across the country together, navigating infected ferals, dwindling resources, and the question that haunts every mile: Can they survive each other when everything else is falling apart?

How We Survive is a queer-centered, Black-centered literary dystopian horror about two people bound by history, tested by apocalypse, and forced to ask how far they’ll go to survive.