Drew Cubby

The Union of Water Bearers Drew Cubby

Water, water, nowhere. And not a drop to drink. Welcome to the near future world of Nick End, an architect at the End of Days. In Nick's world water is the most valuable commodity there is. For most, there is no clean water at all, only synthetic energy drinks. But when Nick stumbles across ghostly figures dripping across the screens which broadcast CCTV images, he inadvertently splashes right into a quest to discover what happened to all the water. And it is a story which begins to tell him a great deal about himself, and why he is the way he is. So dry. So desert, desert dry. 'The Union of Water Bearers' is the third novelette of the Classic Myths Reinvented series from White House Press. Taking as its inspiration the mythical character of 'Aquarius', Drew Cubby's satirical fable highly-stylized piece is "soaked through with great writing". " (The Book Shelf Reviews). "The lack of pure water is an underlying motif that neatly drips through the story." (The Bar-Room Literary Critic).