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March 5, 2026
THE LULLABY SHORT STORY
05March
February 20, 2026
POST-APOCALYPTIC LULLABY
20February
The Post-Apocalyptic Lullaby That Started Everything Before the spark. Before the resistance. Before any of it, there was a song. A Lullaby.The world in Warriors of the Last Days is post-nuclear Montreal stripped to its bones: ashen skies, System towers, creatures that shouldn’t exist, and people learning to survive inside the ruins of everything they used to know. It is not a gentle world...
February 16, 2026
Forging the Spark TEASER
16February
Making the Teaser That Nearly Broke Us When we began work on the teaser for The Spark, we expected intensity. We did not expect resistance. Book IV of Warriors of the Last Days is about ignition: pressure accumulated over three volumes finally finding flame. It felt only right that its teaser would burn hotter, move faster, strike deeper. Instead, we stalled. The iconic Montreal Olympic Stadium...
February 14, 2026
Making the Exodus Teaser Trailer
14February
Inside Book II of Warriors of the Last Days When we began building the teaser trailer for Exodus, Book II of Warriors of the Last Days, we knew it had to feel different from The Refusal trailer. Book I was containment: corridors, ritual, engineered obedience. Exodus is movement. You can watch the teaser trailer here: THE EXODUS TRAILER Expanding the World Beyond the Stadium The first trailer...
February 6, 2026
DYSTOPIAN TROPES: BOOK IV
06February
DYSTOPIAN TROPES FOR BOOK IV: THE SPARK BOOK I TROPES BOOK II TROPES BOOK III TROPES WANT TO KNOW MORE? CORE STRUCTURAL TROPE SET The Spark of Difference A small, unstable shift becomes the only possible change agent — not revolution, but variance within rules. Reorientation Crisis Protagonist(s) confront a systemic discontinuity that forces reassessment of survival logic. Emergent Pattern A...
February 6, 2026
DYSTOPIAN TROPES: BOOK III
DYSTOPIAN TROPES OF BOOK III: THE DRIFT BOOK I TROPES BOOK II TROPES BOOK IV TROPES WANT TO KNOW MORE? CORE STRUCTURAL TROPES FOR BOOK III 1. After the Escape The story that happens after the break. The exodus already occurred. There is no triumphant arrival. 2. Motion Without Destination Movement continues, but without a promised land. Travel is maintenance, not progress. 3. The Dissolving...
February 4, 2026
DYSTOPIAN TROPES: BOOK II
04February
DYSTOPIAN TROPES OF BOOK II: THE EXODUS BOOK I TROPES BOOK III TROPES BOOK IV TROPES WANT TO KNOW MORE? CORE STRUCTURAL TROPES The Exodus Without a Promised Land Movement is necessary, not hopeful. There is no destination that improves moral conditions—only zones of different failure. Subversion: Exodus is loss-minimization, not deliverance. Flight Escalates the Threat Leaving safety increases...
February 3, 2026
DYSTOPIAN TROPES: BOOK I
03February
DYSTOPIAN TROPES OF BOOK I: THE REFUSAL Most dystopian fiction is, at its core, a hero story wearing a dark coat. The world is oppressive, the stakes are high but the narrative bends toward the protagonist. They doubt themselves, then somehow act exactly and correctly. They are tested, then proven. The system, however vast, ultimately exists to be defeated by one person who turns out to matter...
Stéphane Roy is a lifelong reader and writer with a deep love for science fiction, apocalyptic worlds, and tightly constructed mysteries. This is his first novel. He lives in the Yukon with his dog and his aquarium, where long winters, silence, and wide, sometimes glowing, skies leave plenty of room for imagining the end of the world, and what might come after it. He is also waiting, with cautious optimism, for the aliens to finally reveal themselves and straighten us all out.