Zephyr of the Ashes

by Dawn Leslie Lenz

The sun's intense draw lures out all the people of the world, while agoraphobic Chava Logan hunkers down inside her San Francisco apartment in terror. Slowly, more and more people succumb to the allure of the sun.The Sun Pandemic is a global phenomenon that no one seems to understand or be able to fight. Alone in her apartment, Chava struggles against this unknown force. Can her neurotic behaviors actually save her life? A short story from our Orbits sci-fi/fantasy line.

9 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 25, 2011

About the author

Dawn Leslie Lenz is a fiction writer and freelance editor. She is a member of the International Thriller Writers Association, Missouri Writers’ Guild and Unstable Writers Writing Group. Her work has appeared in books, journals, online, and elsewhere including The Green Tricycle, The Rambler, and Mirror, Mirror: Reflections on the Way We Look (New York 2004), among others. She is seeking representation for her first novel, Leaves of the Immortal.

A Master of Fine Arts graduate of the Creative Writing program at the University of New Orleans, she has an undergraduate degree in English from Missouri State University. Dawn Leslie lives in St. Louis with her husband. She is currently hard at work on her next novel.