My most excellent class of writers is the subject of a Yukon News article below. These writers are an awesome group of imaginateurs. I’m impressed, especially, with how they conducted themselves in an interview–thoughtful, insightful, well-read, interesting and interested in each other. Love to start a book club with them!
Article is by James Munson for the Yukon News.
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Zeb Berryman has some demons he’d like to share.
The 18-year-old scribe is an aficionado of the “dark side” in his literary circle, a dozen Whitehorse high school students known as Rocket Fuel.
“The darkness and violence is what makes it beautiful,” says Zeb, referring to one of his current anime reads.
Zeb’s comment elicits a few nods from his fellow science fiction enthusiasts sitting around the table in the FH Collins library.
These young adults have an encyclopedic knowledge of the fantasy genre, and can discuss the intricacies of alchemists, monsters, gods and goblins at length.
“It’s like literature discussion about a whole bunch of books you never get to hear literature discussions about,” says Jerome Stueart, a science fiction writer who started Rocket Fuel two years ago.
But more impressively, it’s their own literary creations they’re the most familiar with.
Ask any one of these students about their works, and it won’t be long before another interjects.
Franz Krabel, 12, tends to kill off his characters a lot, says Santana Berryman, Zeb’s 14-year-old sister.
Santana, for her part, has an obsession with the afterlife, says Stueart.
These writers know each other inside out.
Bear Witness 
That’s cool, Jerome. Those kids are lucky to have you!