Welcome to Sugarville is set in the fictional town of Sugarville, a small suburb outside Atlanta, Georgia. Life couldn’t be more normal for its residents, or so you might think. While one man schedules a doctor’s appointment, another receives a mysterious package, and another quits his job to prepare for an apocalypse that may or may not come. In “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves,” a devastating drought tests the limits of one man’s thirst. “The Last Known Believer” follows the Rapture as it goes not quite according to plan. With each story comes a new layer of intrigue that charms as much as it chills, each “What if?” answered to its fullest and darkest consequence.

J.J. Haas has published short stories in a wide variety of literary and genre magazines including Shenandoah, Baen’s Universe, and The Literary Hatchet. His poetry has appeared in Rattle Magazine, Writer’s Digest, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. By day he works as a Senior Content Developer at ADP producing and narrating software videos. He is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and the President of the University of Chicago Alumni Club of Atlanta. He has also been an Instructor in the Creative Writing Certificate Program at Emory Continuing Education. He lives in a northeast suburb of Atlanta with his wife, Melissa, and two West Highland white terriers.