BLINK - An Oral History of the Harvest

A new epistolary series starting September 18th

Alright, so I’ve been sitting on this project for awhile. My original plan was to actually start serialising this rather than Underland. I even started writing it before Underland, but some severe imposter syndrome made me put it on the back-burner.

BUT, after some encouragement, I’ve decided to take the plunge.

The main reason I want to do it now is I had a lot of fun writing my short fiction story The Eyewitnesses, and whilst I do plan to spin that off into its own thing eventually, I wanted an other outlet for writing short stories.

I wanted to give myself an alternative outlet for the lulls between releasing chapters of Underland and when I just need to step away from it for a few days and do something else.

Enter BLINK - An Oral History of the Harvest. A serialised epistolary novel launching Monday September 18th in the vein of World War Z that explores the question: what if the Rapture happened in reverse?

The plan is to break this publication up into seasoned releases:

Season One: Indication - will deal with the initial fallout of the event called the Harvest in the first hours, days & weeks.

Season Two: Mitigation - will follow how the world responds to the Harvest after the first few months and years.

Season Three: Reconstitution - will look at how the world attempts to rebuild following the Harvest in successive years and decades.

Stories won’t have a set schedule but will be released periodically. The aim is for season to contain 15-20 stories, but this is subject to change.

What I am going to do with BLINK that I haven’t yet done with Underland is offer paid subscriptions for those who want to support my work.

Each season will be free to read, but after the conclusion of the season, all the episodes will join an archive exclusive for paid subscribers. Paid subscribers will have access to the full archive and an exclusive subscriber chat where they can submit ideas for future stories.

Those who subscribe at the Founder level will have the opportunity to become a character in BLINK! We’ll schedule a video-call, you’ll tell me your story and background, and we’ll see about incorporating you into a future episode.

Just for you guys, I’m posting a preview below, but head on over to this link and subscribe for free so you’ll be the first to know when it launches.

Stephen

“If there is going to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.” - Chancellor Gorkon, Klingon High Council

“I never thought I’d change the world and I wasn’t trying to predict the future; but somehow, I ended up doing both...”

On April 5th 2026, at exactly 4:03pm Greenwich Mean Time, 4.73 billion people vanished off the face of the planet.

This event would come to be known as the Harvest.

In the blink of an eye, the entire world was reduced to almost a third of its former population.

The days and weeks that followed saw opinions rage as to the cause of this global catastrophe; from “Thanos the Mad Titan,” to Freemasons and the Large Hadron Collider. It’s somewhat ironic, given what we know now, how little we anticipated the truth.

My native London alone saw the population drop from 9.9 to 2.6 million people in less time than it takes for a signal to travel from your eyes to your brain. In an instant, almost half the region north of the River Thames became virtually uninhabited. The hustle and bustle of Commercial Road. The endless stream of tourists shuffling between Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. All went still, all fell silent.

The extent of this catastrophe could only be described as cataclysmic. Whilst it wasn’t an isolated incident, several regions fared worse than the others.

The state of New York reportedly dropped from 19.6 to 9.3 million people. Brazil saw losses of 79 to 81 million souls (which, in retrospect, didn’t put that big a dent on its pre-Harvest population of 223 million). China, on the other hand, suffered catastrophic losses; going from 1.4 billion to 375 million people overnight (a loss of 73.24% of the population). But even this didn’t stack up to Pakistan. Out of 241 million people, only 61 million remained; just 25.6% of the former population.

There appeared to be no rationale or pattern to the disappearances. They seemed random. Then the reports started coming in. Out of all those who’d survived, everyone was either under the age of thirteen—or was a professing Christian.

Suddenly, we were no longer speculating about cosmic freak accidents. Now, we were wondering why every single Christian on the planet had been “left behind.”

Everyone’s end time theology took a hit.

Whether you were premill, postmill or amill; pre-trib, mid-trib or post-trib, none of the systems worked anymore. Nobody had anticipated this.

Nobody—except me.

You see, I was the guy who—three years prior—had inadvertently predicted the Harvest.

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Look forward to seeing you all Monday 18th September!