High Atop the Hills is a short story that I wrote over the course of February to May 2021, being somewhat of a companion work to Over the Horizon and Into the Dead Downtown. A somewhat shorter affair this time around, High Atop the Hills is about Arden, another young man who has survived the apparent end of the world, and his first chance encounter with a cheery young woman named Angelina, who has plans for both him and any remaining survivors they meet. What follows is a conversation that makes him learn not only more about her plans for the future, but her own life before having to switch to exploring and foraging.
High Atop The Hills can be read right here as a PDF.
The above image is a promotional still I found online from the 2007 movie The Place Promised in Our Early Days. I have not seen it yet, but I have heard generally positive reviews from friends (though none of them would consider it better than Makoto Shinkai's later film Your Name).
Angelina was named after the song of the same name by New York post-punk band The Bravery, and the song was a bit of an inspiration for this work.
