APOCALYPSE ROCK by Nate Budzinski — CHAPTER 01: Thirty Years Back
Chapter 01 of APOCALYPSE ROCK by Nate Budzinski – a mystery novel set on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Get the full ebook or audiobook versions from https://www.budzinski.work/apocalypse...
“A genre-twisting mystery of the Pacific Northwest.”
“Smart page-turner filled with suspense and atmosphere.”
Life's good out on remote Sternum Island in the placid Pacific Northwest. But when one of Doug Shasta’s oldest friends disappears, the underemployed slacker falls into an increasingly strange reality lurking just beyond the forest’s edge — ancient spirits, Cold War mind-control experiments, and a new age retreat schilling cryptocurrency and live-streamed enlightenment.
Like an episode of Black Mirror washed up on the shores of The Wicker Man’s Summerisle, this immersive, suspense-filled novel plunges readers into moody landscapes, dubious histories, and glitchy technotopian futurism — telling the story of a slacker teetering on the edge, and a community about to lose its collective mind.
Finish the story here: https://www.budzinski.work/apocalypse...
Nate Budzinski’s writing has been published by Frieze, ArtReview, The Wire music magazine, among others. He grew up in the Pacific Northwest and now lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.