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Bunker Bird

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Reads 64,770
Votes 4,437
Parts 43
Time 4h 40m

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Tim, a garbage handler in a post-apocalyptic bunker, loses the little he has. But then he finds Amy, the redhead with an attitude. Together, they will try to change the world they live in.

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Tim is one of those who shovel the shit and clean away the waste. Life in the dirt of others is all he knows.

When his father gets arrested, he flees and ends up in the deepest tunnels of the shelter. There, he finds Amy--a stubborn, smelly, and fierce redhead with a punch, an attitude, and dreams of a better world. She scorns him, and he fears her.

But together they climb in a quest to free his father and to find sunshine.

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Dystopian, post-apocalyptic SciFi with humor in unexpected places.

An abbreviated version of the book was 2nd place winner in the Open Novella Contest 2019! 
Wattpad Editors' Pick in 2019.

Major edits in September 2020 and in May  and September 2021.

Featured in the reading lists of the @dystopianapocalypse ambassador profile.All Rights Reserved

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