Tarin's World

The end of the world has come and gone in Tarin's World.

Civilization has collapsed and various isolated pockets are picking up the pieces. In one area of what was the United States, a small band of boys lives in the woods. Their main goals in life are to stay warm and fed in winter, and to not be caught by the neighboring men. The men are "civilized" and have a barracks like existence on a crumbling college campus. Tarin can't think of anything worse than having to live inside. But no boy has managed to escape the men past his seventh summer in the woods.

Our hero, Tarin, is twice caught – he's encountered a man by the lake and has barely escaped. His prized knife (win it in the contest!) was left in the beak-faced man's thigh. We can all guess who Tarin is destined to be caught by in that Fall's boy hunt!

No one knows where boys come from -- but every Spring a happy, boisterous band of eleven and twelve year olds arrives in the woods –- and every Fall the oldest boys are caught by the men. The boys' cries to their Lady for help are unheeded -- the men's Mother is more powerful…

Tarin's World (Out of the Woods and Twice Caught) is a place of barely understood old technology and equally confused new superstitions. The men and the boys agree on one thing: women are out there and they're all powerful!

Tarin's World was inspired by an odd mix of the TV show Life After People, Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma, old English folk songs, and John Preston's old bdsm classic The Heir. Eclectic is my middle name.


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