Hook
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Ongoing, First published May 19, 2019
Three hundred and fifteen years after World War IV  snow no longer falls, the heat is unbearable, and a single city stands as the heart of civilization but humans are not the ones that inhabit it.  Human evolution and improvement reigned supreme when the Malum won the war and nearly sent the human race into extinction. For seventy years the humans have been rebelling by thieving  and humiliating the Malum all the while fighting against their own kind. They kill, they die, but the only alternative is to live in filth and poverty and in constant fear of being assassinated. 

The rebellion calls themselves Hooks, and after seventy years, killing and being killed it has become an almost normal lifestyle. And in a life of death and destruction it's almost impossible to spot a talented Hook from a psychopath.
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