Like much of the dialog in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” just give Nux’s famous quotable line, “If I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die historic on the fury road” a little twist, and it’s the beginning of a epic poem about the 300 at Thermopylae. Surely those few Spartan soldiers were thinking thoughts similar to Nux.
Writer and photographer Elizabeth Bourne studied painting in Boston and New York. She considers photography to be an extension of her digital illustration work, which is in several permanent collections.
Bourne is also a published genre writer. Her work has been published in Black Lantern, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, Interzone, and Clarkesworld. She loves writing genre and is currently working on a second world fantasy novel and a mystery set in prohibition era San Francisco.
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