/lit/ - Literature

>>17383894
My story centers on two families and their stories. It's a medieval, high magic, low post-industrial tech, post- eco- apocalyptic, distant future setting.
>Family 1
Human fishermen who bear a rare genestock. The eldest daughter is the last surviving heir and is expected to bear a child. She has three sibs, each of which has unique powers and limitations.
>Family 2
Ancient 'evil angels' that fell from 'heaven.' (These are Gustave Dore/Hieronymus Bosch/ biblical angels.) The grandmother and her brood, with their big schemes for the earth and their conflicted relationships about one another and surviving the depressive mental illness brought on by being trapped in the firmament for thousands of years.
>But ultimately
It's about the silence of God, our earthly prayers, the arrogance of angels, a thin line between salvation, damnation and oblivion. And not offer us. It's also about our relationship with nature, survival in a far post-collapse scenario. I am reading Bakker, Gnostic texts, Blake, Job, Ecclesiastes, Revelation, Psalms...