In the Aftermath: Stories

by Savannah Schroll Guz

From the author of American Soma and The Famous and The Anonymous comes a collection of short stories about extreme circumstances and complicated decisions. Opening with a quote by Richard Nixon, the compilation's sixteen stories include a tale of a 1930s debutante whose fame allows her to move beyond her mother’s destructive influence, a president forced to confront the otherworldly force truly responsible for pulling the world’s strings, the near destruction and resurgence of the human species, and the personal unravelling of a trio of women who paint radium on watch dials in the 1920s. Including both historical and speculative fiction, Guz's collection takes an incisive look at human psychology.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 10, 2012

About the author

Savannah Schroll Guz is author of the short story collection, The Famous & The Anonymous (Better Non Sequitur, 2004) and editor of the theme-based fiction anthology, Consumed: Women on Excess (So New Media, 2005). She has been nominated for a Pushcart and a Storysouth Million Writers Award.

A new collection of fiction, American Soma, was published by Oregon-based So New Publishing in 2009.

She is a monthly columnist for Library Journal and an art critic for Pittsburgh City Paper and American Craft Magazine. Previously, her essays, reviews, and cultural criticism have appeared in Sculpture, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Bitch Magazine, and Popmatters. She is an adjunct English instructor at West Virginia Northern in Wheeling.