Goodreads asked E. Ellis Allen:

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

E. Ellis Allen I got the idea for my most recent story from a biography I'm working on about a German Soldier, who served during WWII. In doing research about soldiers of the Axis, I came across an account of a Wehrmacht entering a city in Belarus, occupied for some time by Germany. The soldier described piles of human remains lined up along the city streets. I wrote a scene of what it might have been like for that soldier.
When I found out that The Utah Horror Writers Association was accepting submissions with the theme of "It came from the Great Salt Lake," I reconfigured my original scene with the setting in Belarus, to a short story set on Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

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