Desperate, NC

The Interactive Museum Exhibition Official Field Guide

Edited by Jendayi Brooks-Flemister, Alexander Lopez, Cadwell Turnbull, Misha Vaagen Lazzara

Desperate, NC

Approx. 108 pp., 6 x 9

  • E-book PDF ISBN: 978-1-4696-7796-5
    Published: March 2025

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Distributed for NCSU Creative Writing MFA Program

Desperate, NC is a collaboratively-written mosaic novella centered around the fictional town of Desperate, located in the backwoods of North Carolina. Told through a collection of found documents and tied together as a futuristic museum tour, this unconventional blend of multi-genre storytelling and historical speculative fiction gradually unravels the mystery of what happened to the immortal residents of this mysterious and isolated North Carolina settlement.

The project was a collaboration between Cadwell Turnbull and his MFA class of contributing authors: Jendayi Brooks-Flemister, Isaac Green, Michael Ivory, Misha Lazzara, Alexander Lopez, Catey Maple, Elyse Rudemiller, Kayla Rutledge, Ali Saleh, Jesse Wang, and Paul Watts-Offret.