Fiction & World Building
When the lights went out.
Stories built from the ground up. Grounded worlds. Characters who carry the weight of what the world left behind and what it never explained..
The Severed City is a post-EMP thriller series by writer and world builder Stu McEwing. Set in New York City in autumn 2021, the story follows seventeen year old Kimberly Sterns after a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse destroys every electronic system in the Northern Hemisphere simultaneously. What begins as a survival story becomes something darker — a conspiracy that reaches further than anyone on the ground could know. Explore the world, meet the characters, and follow the story as it develops. The Severed City is currently in development, with Field Notes tracking the writing process and world building along the way.
