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> identify --author "ryan law"

Ryan Law

Role
Founder & editor
Location
United Kingdom
Specialism
Post-apocalyptic fiction

Ryan Law is the founder and editor of Ash Tales, creator and host of the Ash Tales podcast, and author of The Rainmaker Writings. He writes post-apocalyptic fiction from the UK, with a particular interest in drowned worlds, nuclear legacies, and the people who endure them.

> list --published-record

Published record

> query stories --author="ryan-law" --sort=newest

Story log

12 records returned

  1. 01 Nuclear

    Hell Truckers

    He turned another card. A dog-eared Jack of hearts with a shit-eating grin pencilled crudely onto the vellum. That was a problem, because he already had a Jack of hear...

    8:22 OPEN →
  2. 02 Nuclear

    The Ridgeway

    Four days out and running low on water, but he didn't care. He stopped at the crest of the hill to catch his breath. It was full dark, but his eyes adjusted to the low...

    7:52 OPEN →
  3. 03 Climate

    Traveller's Unrest

    "Ale's going off," he shouted into space across the empty inn. Beric swilled the last mouthful. There was a sickly sweet taste to it, and it was flat, almost syrupy. A...

    16:32 OPEN →
  4. 04 Zombie

    Catch and Release

    $18,000 per catch. Less if they're incomplete. Nothing if the head comes off, for obvious reasons. $18,000. More money than most people earn in a year, and all being w...

    13:13 OPEN →
  5. 05 Climate

    Like Wildfire

    The riots were three blocks over and the power was cutting in and out, so she packed her camping gear and drove hard and fast out of the valley, leaving the smog and c...

    6:58 OPEN →
  6. 06 Biotech

    Twenty-Seven Minutes

    In this line of work, you think about death every day. You have to. You sign the waivers and the non-disclosures, you take out the insurance policies and attend the pr...

    13:13 OPEN →
  7. 07 Nuclear

    The Danger Is Still Present, in Your Time, as It Was in Ours

    They watched the kid dig with manic intensity. The pile of dirt next to him had grown to maybe half his height. Some of the soil would tumble back into the hole with e...

    11:20 OPEN →
  8. 08 Climate

    The Gates of Morbach

    Chains and ropes creaked on the other side of the great gate. Beyond, Grade could hear the sounds of life and livestock, mingling with the rain. He could hear the squa...

    22:42 OPEN →
  9. 09 Climate

    The Green Priest

    Halvar sheltered under the branches of an old willow tree, hidden from sight by a thick curtain of fronds that trailed the river’s surface. His canoe rose and fell wit...

    26:20 OPEN →
  10. 10 Climate

    Drowned World

    Elani sheltered under the branches of an old willow tree, hidden from sight, her aluminium canoe bobbing on the water. She sat, silent, wrapped from head to toe in thi...

    26:44 OPEN →
  11. 11 Climate

    Desolation

    They were called “The Good People”. They turned up at the settlement every six months, near as Arch could tell. They’d travel through the fiercest rainstorms, fight th...

    12:20 OPEN →
  12. 12 Climate

    The Watcher

    He sat in the hide and watched the rain fall. He watched the big, broad leaved trees shudder with every raindrop, and he watched great evergreens weather the storm wit...

    6:20 OPEN →