Read an extract from Michel Nieva's science fiction novel Dengue Boy

Michel Nieva's Dengue Boy is set on a drowned future Earth Spread-eagle on that strange white surface which lay beneath the inclement Antarctic sun, Dengue Destroyed saw everything flash by in no more than a second. What of life is there to look back on in the space of a few instants when a boy, a girl, a destroyed void, believes it is about to die? Might it think of its dear mother, lament the father it never knew, or perhaps recall, some humorous or traumatic anecdote involving its classmates? Truthfully, not much else had happened during her brief time on Earth. However (for the mind works in mysterious and unpredictable ways, especially the mind of a mutant mosquito), Dengue Destroyed did not think about any of these people, but rather about a story her mother used to read her at bedtime, the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.