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Last published Wed, Jul 2, 2014
I slowly opened my eyes, trying to recover my vision. As the blurriness ended, I could see that I surrounded by half burned down and charred buildings. I sat up and looked down at my self to see that I was laying on a bed of ash. In fact everything was covered in a bed of grey ash. A sudden stabbing pain came from my forehead sending waves of pain through the rest of my head. I slightly tapped my hand on the source of the pain. When I brought it down to see that it was covered in scarlet sticky blood. The salty, metallic scent filled the air around me.
Joel has no memory of who he is, where he is or what happened. In this story Joel will have to make some ally's if he wants to survive out in The Wild for there are mutated animals and people as well as a few canibal clans.
Will he survive.
Or will he become part of The Ash?
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