Rebask asked Nick Cole:

While I love reading TEOTWAWKI books - my imagination is so intense that I have wondered: "If I were to try my hand at such a book as a TEOTWAWKI type book, how could I ever look my neighbors (or strangers on the street) in the face again without wondering which ones would turn 'bad' during a catastrophe. Do you find such a thing happening in your daily life and if so, how do you turn it off?

Nick Cole I think Nathaniel Hawthorne was right when he wrote the story Young Goodman Brown. It's a night journey through the forest where a young man meets the devil. The devil shows him what his neighbors, and his true love, are really up to. In the morning he returns, lives his life, grows old and is haunted by what he saw that night in the forest. Maybe it was just his imagination. Maybe it was real. We writers are like that young man, we've been to the dark parts of the forest and seen what goes on beneath the pale moonlight, if only in our dreams. And we are forever changed.

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