What if the end of man is not caused by some cataclysmic event, but by the
nature of humans themselves? In Age of Blight, a young scientist's harsh and
unnecessary experiments on monkeys are recorded for posterity; children are
replaced by their doppelgangers, which emerge like flowers in their backyards;
and two men standing on opposing cliff faces bear witness to each other's
terrifying ends.
Age of Blight explores a kind of post-future, in which the human race is finally
abandoned to the end of its history. Muslim's poetic vignettes explore the
nature of dystopia itself, often to darkly humorous effect, as when the spirit
of Laika (the