My latest project is titled The Calling Of One. It's current status is in final editing, and then it's query time. Below is what The Calling Of One is all about.
Mikenna Lawson
wakes up every morning wishing she wasn’t the last human ever born. After the
human race makes the permanent decision to stop reproducing, Mikenna imagines
herself as the second Eve, having babies, and repopulating the Earth.
But Mikenna
doesn’t know she was born during a time when reproduction was illegal. So when
she learns from her Aunt Rebekah that she was sterilized at birth, her hopes
come crashing down. One day she’s Googling images of babies to see if they look
like the ones she sees in her dreams. The next day she’s contemplating suicide
so someone else can be the last. She seeks the world’s recognition and apology,
but finds that her husband is the only person who cares.
As Mikenna nears
menopause, and the human race dwindles, she discovers what she should’ve known
years before: she was never sterilized. Rebekah had known all along that the
doctor who delivered Mikenna saved her from the sterilization.
The truth tears
at Mikenna’s heart as the dream of having a child, and continuing the human
race, becomes possible. But she will have to decide if fulfilling her own
desire is worth subjecting an innocent child to the burdens of an empty world.
