Goodreads asked Gregory Adams:

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

Gregory Adams I publish short story collections so the ideas are varied, but the most consistent motivator is to look at a situation or condition and imagine the most extreme or absurd outcome and then attempt to relate that story as realistically as possible. Undecided in The River Above, for example, imagines if the worst of our two political parties was true. Martyrs in One Day in Hell considers suicide bombing as a more common means of social critique. What I try to do is find the truth in such an absurd circumstance and keep it grounded as possible.

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