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In a post-pandemic world where life ends at twenty-five, one man’s immunity becomes his greatest curse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most people in Isaac Jameson’s world don’t live long enough to see their children grow. The Blight, a mysterious plague that has ravaged humanity, claims nearly everyone before their twenty-sixth birthday. In the mountain valleys of what was once the state of Utah, communities struggle to preserve fragments of the old world’s knowledge while racing against their own mortality.<\/p>\n

Isaac should have died like everyone else. Instead, he becomes the Lifewalker, a man condemned to watch every person he loves age and die while he remains untouched by time.<\/p>\n

From author Joe Vasicek comes a deeply moving story that explores what it means to be human in a world where life is fleeting and death is certain. THE CURSE OF THE LIFEWALKER is a contemplative journey through a beautifully imagined post-apocalyptic landscape, where ancient ruins whisper of lost wonders and love becomes both salvation and tragedy.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published in the Sci Phi Journal in June 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a world where death comes at twenty-five, living a normal lifespan is the cruelest curse of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1368],"product_tag":[1381,1387,1376],"class_list":{"0":"post-22777","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ebooks","7":"product_tag-action-adventure","8":"product_tag-apocalyptic-post-apocalyptic","9":"product_tag-science-fiction","10":"entry","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"sale","15":"downloadable","16":"virtual","17":"sold-individually","18":"taxable","19":"purchasable","20":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/22777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=22777"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=22777"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=22777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}