Goodreads asked Ann Loyal:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ann Loyal "Against the Inevitable" is my senior thesis for my undergrad studies. To graduate, I had to create a collection of my work from my time at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. The collection was suppose to have a central theme, and as I looked over all my work, I realized death was a common denominator in many of them.
The prose poem "Face of Death" is the only story that was created solely for the collection and is the central piece of the collection.

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