The Now
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Last published Fri, Jul 14, 2017
"There was a very old saying. 'Always live in the now' they say." My Mother said. "It's 2067. We are living in the now, look where it's gotten us." She gestured to the vast wastlands around us. I was to scared to say anything. I should have said something. But I didn't. ". We live in the Now, but too bad we can't fulfill the living part." She said that right before she shot herself so Arlo's minions couldn't get secrets out of her.
I'm a sixteen year old girl named Acia, living in the wastelands that Arlo left behind. I will stop at nothing to kill him. It's pay back time.
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