Writer Dale Bailey on Why We Love the Apocalypse So Much

Writer Dale Bailey on Why We Love the Apocalypse So Much

In Dale Bailey’s short story “Lightning Jack’s Last Ride,” the United States fractures after the NRA uses a dirty bomb to destroy Washington, DC. And while the political subtext of the story seems clear, Bailey insists that his fiction is less about making a statement and more about expressing his anxieties about the modern world. …