Geosapiology: a brief history of geogenesis, the Stones, and the Theory of Appeasement — Part Six
By K.A. Wiggins
The Stones were not killers by nature, but by the time the Theory of Conciliation finally broke into the mainstream, humanity had been reduced by more than two-thirds. This contraction had occurred over the course of centuries and was not quite as catastrophic as it might sound—worse apocalypses had in fact been predicted for the same period—though the co-occurring biodiversity loss and soil depletion made survival for the remaining population an ongoing trial.
As a result, the bulk of humanity was not best pleased to be called upon to offer up tribute to the Stones. They patterned their grudging experiments at first after the ancient models—offerings of food and drink and small gifts, songs and dances. It was a bitter and unwilling mockery of merriment at first.
And then it started to work.
K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction author who can't stop inserting monsters (and magic) into local landscapes.
Best known for her gothic-dystopian YA+ Dark Fantasy series Threads of Dreams, in which a macabre (neurospicy) misfit storms monster-infested, post-eco-apocalypse Vancouver, her quietly subversive works have also appeared in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Brave New Weird: Best New Weird Horror, Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, The NoSleep Podcast, Fantasy Magazine, and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, among others.
Kaie spends her days with books on the traditional unceded territory of the K’omoks and Pentlatch peoples, writing, working as a school library tech, teaching as a Creative Writing for Children Society educator, and leading the Children's Writers & Illustrators of British Columbia Society. Find her at kawiggins.com.
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