As darkness descends upon the land, will Amanda be able to change the fate of the world, or is it already too late?
THE WASPS AND THE LOCUSTS is an allegorical Christian fiction novel influenced by the anthropomorphic dramas of Richard Adams' Watership Down and George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the apocalyptic terror of Stephen King’s The Stand, and the classic metaphorical delivery of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. This tale is inspired from the Old Testament Book of Joel and its visions of spiritual judgment and redemption in the metaphor of a locust invasion sent by God. This story never loses its focus to entertain the reader, showing the themes of forgiveness, perseverance, and faith by interweaving Christian symbolism with the phenomenon of nature and insects.
A lone, homeless queen paper wasp named Amanda traverses the Farm, a polluted and drought-ravaged valley owned by the Man. Fleeing a sandstorm and a disturbing past, she finds unlikely sanctuary in the nest of grey wasps, an invasive species from a distant land. While struggling to adapt to a new culture and social hierarchy, she is warned by a raven of an impending locust invasion sent by God to destroy the Farm. Told to prepare the wasp colony burdened with internecine conflict and other distractions, she faces hardships that challenge her spiritual commitment as well as her survival. In addition, she ponders a mysterious entity that holds a clue to the redemption of Creation after the locust attack.
This novel is the second and final part of two intertwined stories; the prequel The Butterfly and the Dragonfly, is in the works.
Tell your sons about it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons the next generation. What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; and what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; and what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.
—Joel 1:3–4 (NASB)
