Intro--
Hello! My name is Abby and I created this account to serve as a collection of my thoughts and aesthetics as I write my book! So far, I'm working with concepts and drafts as I try to figure out how I want to portray my story. The current draft of this story is called 'Rotten Apple' but it is subject to change in the future. Here's a quick summary of the plot:
In the 1990s, innovation of new technology was an exciting prospect and it opened a whole new world of connections and ease to the American people. The only problem is that the technology they had integrated into everyday life had a massive flaw-- the Year 2000 glitch. This glitch made it so that on New Years Eve of 1999 as the clock struck 12, all computers would glitch and, instead of turning the year to 2000, would instead change back to 1900, therefore causing mass technological destruction. This would lead to worldwide devastation of banks, offices, factories, military facilities, and many more vital processes to the modern life. This glitch, though discovered by the American government as early as 1994, was never addressed. As panic rose throughout America as the year 2000 rapidly approached, the government quelled fears by denying that the glitch existed. On January 1st of 2000, the world's worst fears came true and the inevitable collapse of the United States infrastructure began. In retaliation, citizens began to revolt. Government officials lives were threatened and eventually taken, riots and raides broke out on the streets-- those rich enough after the collapse quickly fled from their mistakes in America, meanwhile the citizens were left behind in the aftermath to suffer.
As time went on, the United States of America slowly became small bands of towns and communities with their own small governments. Farming food, scavenging for old technology, and trading for survival has become the norm.
In 2036, 19 year old Layne Graves was born into and has lived in a post-collapse world with his Grandfather-- a man who was a part of the government committee researching the Year 2000 Glitch. His Grandfather, being one of the few who didn't flee America after the glitch, dedicated his life to documenting the history of the U.S.A. and everything that took place pre and post-collapse.
After Layne's grandfather dies, he is tasked with preserving the documents he spent his life writing-- but things get complicated as Layne becomes indebted to a local scavenger gang named The Caines and he stumbles upon old world technology he was never meant to see.
