This is a story that I've been writing for … um … carry the three … well, since I came up with the idea in my last year of university. It was an assignment to write a first chapter of a novel that brought you into a place with a character, one of two (the other one is pure fan fiction that I might yet still get around to). I might have left it at that, had my instructor, Prof. Catherine Schryer, suggested that I could play off the idea of a banshee, and that it didn't need to be wholly phantom in nature.
Although a long writing process, I completed this during the COVID pandemic of 2020 (with edits in 2021). So at least one good thing came of all of that...
Warning: This story is not for children.
Joanna Maria de Leon is one of the Engineers, a group of former engineering students who built the last known pocket of survivors of the Apocalypse. Ten years after the world collapsed around them, their shelter -- the ARCH -- is also falling apart, both the physical structure, and what remains of their civility. Jo clings to hope, willing it to last long enough for their escape, but can she save everyone, let alone herself?
- The Banshee, Chapter 1Welcome to the ARCH as it continues to fall apart.
- The Banshee, Chapter 2Jo goes to visit the greenhouse, then has to deal with a room of problems.
- The Banshee, Chapter 3Jo finds what she needs for repairs, though it nearly kills her in the process.
- The Banshee, Chapter 4Realizing there are things she cannot do alone, Jo goes to find help.
- The Banshee, Chapter 5
- The Banshee, Chapter 6
- The Banshee, Chapter 7
- The Banshee, Chapter 8
- The Banshee, Chapter 9
- The Banshee, Chapter 10
- The Banshee, Chapter 11
- The Banshee, Chapter 12
- The Banshee, Chapter 13
- The Banshee, Chapter 14
- The Banshee, Chapter 15
- The Banshee, Chapter 16
- The Banshee, Chapter 17
- The Banshee, Chapter 18
- The Banshee, Chapter 19
- The Banshee, Chapter 20
- The Banshee, Chapter 21
- The Banshee, Chapter 22
- The Banshee, Chapter 23
- The Banshee, Chapter 24
- The Banshee, Chapter 25
- The Banshee, Chapter 26
- The Banshee, Chapter 27
- The Banshee, Chapter 28
- The Banshee, Chapter 29
- The Banshee, Chapter 30
- The Banshee, Chapter 31
- The Banshee, Chapter 32
- The Banshee, Chapter 33
- The Banshee, Chapter 34
- The Banshee, Chapter 35
- The Banshee, Chapter 36
- The Banshee, Chapter 37
- The Banshee, Chapter 38
- The Banshee, Chapter 39