This summer, CINF’s Vice-President Dr. Siobhan Nash-Marshall released her latest publication: a novella titled George.
The short story retells the classic fable of “George and the Dragon,” but set in a dark and confused time akin to our own.
The “world of before” is gone, ended by the ferocious Dragon who brought destruction and death, who fills the world with his Smoke, who demands continuous sacrifices. In the “new normal,” men lead hollow lives, hermetically sealed in their homes, dominated by fear of the “outside,” fixated like automatons in front of their television screens. Yet George, hungry for reality, one day makes an escape from his family and childhood home. His journey in search of the truth will take him to a mysterious estate and community. His encounters there will initiate his personal fight against the Dragon, and the beginning of his conversion.
This vivid and engaging novella brings its readers to face the true war at the heart of our chaotic modern world – the war of What I Want versus What Is.