"Everybody's Dead" is a haunting quartet of speculative fiction stories exploring the eerie and mind-bending consequences of quantum immortality-the unsettling idea that consciousness can persist across infinite timelines where death is always narrowly avoided. Each story stands alone but is thematically connected through the lens of survival, grief, identity, and the fragile nature of reality.

1. The Last Witness A man wakes up after a fatal accident, only to realize he's still alive-in a slightly different world. But as the near-deaths multiply, he begins to suspect he is not surviving by chance. He's being dragged through realities, each darker than the last.
2. Every Road But One A woman survives every tragedy-bombings, illness, suicide attempts. She can't die, but she isn't living either. With every new survival comes a deeper loneliness and an obsessive quest to find the one path where she doesn't wake up.
3. The Collapse Effect A quantum scientist experimenting with alternate realities becomes unstuck in time. Every moment of death sends him skipping like a stone across timelines-until the multiverse begins to break under the weight of his continuous survival.
4. The Man Who Wouldn't Die In a post-apocalyptic world, one man walks the ruins-again and again. He's survived every possible end of the world, from nuclear war to AI collapse. Now he realizes: he might be the reason it's all falling apart.

Carin Prinsloo is a writer drawn to the liminal spaces between science and soul, where reality bends and questions echo louder than answers. Fascinated by the concept of quantum immortality, she explores themes of identity, isolation, and human resilience across shifting timelines and fractured worlds.

A lifelong observer of people and patterns, Carin's fiction often reflects her deep curiosity about existence, memory, and what it means to truly live?or to never be able to die. Her stories are intimate and unsettling, often blurring the lines between speculative fiction, psychological drama, and philosophical inquiry.

When she's not writing, Carin enjoys quiet moments with her daughters, reading late into the night, and pondering the infinite "what ifs" that spark her storytelling. Though much of her work deals with extraordinary circumstances, it is grounded in very real emotions: grief, hope, longing, and the search for meaning in a chaotic universe.

"Everybody's Dead" is her first collection dedicated entirely to the theme of quantum survival, and a reflection of her ongoing fascination with the mysterious forces that might shape our lives?and our deaths.