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After We Ran
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Ongoing, First published May 24, 2018
Mature
It's been nine years.
The lights. Her uncle. The way his body was so wretched and shrivelled in pain, covered in blood, and having teeth sunk into him.

The last time he would ever be awake.

-

It's different now. It's been almost 10 years since the outbreak of cortex morbo hominum, the somewhat cannibalistic virus that feeds off your brain until you're driven into madness. Chaos. Death. They say that those infected aren't human anymore. That you can't save them. That they won't spare you.

Surviving. It's become the normal. We've become conditioned to live on edge to the point where nothing scares us anymore. Almost.

I'm in a safe house. An orphanage. I'm not alone.
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