Power Corrupts. Absolute 'Femin' Power Corrupted Absolutely, creating a world without men in a dystopian world in the aftermath of plague - save for a select breeding stock featured in bizarre rituals - if they are very, very lucky. A world where all things male are erased even from the lexicons, after R.I.P's., or Reticulating Plague Syndrome, destroyed only the females of the species. The death rate was horrific - men were blamed worldwide, as governments defended by a terrified male militia, stumble - and in a tiny window of time, all-female schools, nunneries, prisons, and wherever...

Summer. 1989. The age of innocence. Two terrified boys grow up fast in a Perfect Town where a voracious and insatiable Monster grows huge in a derelict factory... out where sidewalks end, and no one knows where you are.... Will-Fred is neglected. Elmo has asthma. Peers hate them. How could they convince either parents or town elders of the bloodcurdling danger? But then, they discover the most chilling menace is much closer than their worst nightmares and they need to take out the Monster anyway they can.....