Cherish is a different kind of war story. Instead of describing the chaos and destruction inflicted by blowing things up, it centers on what happens when everything shuts down. The setting is a college town in rural Iowa as it adapts to a cyberwar where a massive national and global power outage paralyzes supply chains, communications, transportation, food production and other components of modernity.

This is an emotionally and spiritually complex portrayal of the best and worst aspects of human behavior under extreme duress. Cyberattacks won’t last forever, but in their limited duration they test our mettle by forcing us to realize that like it or not, we belong with one another. We either survive and thrive together or we die alone in isolation and terror.

Some men see things as they are and ask, “Why?”
I dream things that never were and ask, “Why Not?”

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah