But the title is really inspired by a feeling, and it was a feeling I had after watching one of the earliest trailers for "28 Days Later". I've literally searched dozens of times for that particular version of the trailer, but I've never been able to find it.
Maybe it was a nightmare I had after watching the trailer.
But, there's a moment where people are running away to hide from something terrible, but they're running into a deep, dark, wet place that, under ordinary circumstances, they would never EVER go.
I was just struck by the sensation of the awful choice: what's after you is bad, but where you're going to escape it is worse than you could possibly imagine.
It's the worst place On Earth.
And, like any good writer, there's lots of double meanings in that title. But I'll leave it to you, oh, intrepid reader, to suss that out for yourself.
I mean, at this point, if you're following my writing, you've already gone to Hell. How much worse can it be? :-)
Right?
