Carpe Diem

<p><em>There will be no great-grandchildren for him. </em></p><p><br></p><p><em>There will be no yearbook photo for some descendant to peer at tracing their high cheekbones through flesh and photo as they flip through the pages. There will be no video tapes no secret stash of letters. There will be no amber to pass on. It will die with him like everyone around him will die and all of their embarrassing high school stories monuments war crimes and bullet journals. </em></p><p><br></p><p><em>There will be no photographs of it. No one to collect the debris. It will fade like the walls they voted unanimously to stop repainting because they're beginning to worry they'll be the Last.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>In a world governed by the Sun Wind Sea and Gaia golden boy Dante could've never predicted what the Fates have in store: humanity is infertile. Deemed Aphrodite's Curse this mysterious plague upends the framework of society with social upheaval economic crises technological advances ecological revelations and biological ultimatums.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>Drawing from mythology and science fiction Saba Nia's </span><em style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>Carpe Diem</em><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)> centers around Dante's family and that of a neighbor an inquisitive and thoughtful girl named Rose to explore how relationships evolve and adapt in the backdrop of a prolonged Armageddon.</span></p>