Burning Skies - Erick Thompson
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Last published Sat, Sep 21, 2019
The Sun.
It has given life for millions of years to countless lives. What happens when it takes them away? What happens when the sun causes the end of life as we know it?
This story is about Erick Thompson; one of the many survivors of the solar catastrophes that sent the Earth into dismay. When a solar flare strong enough to wipe out the magnetosphere hits the Earth, how do you cope with the horrors it has to bring? Water and debris sucked into space only to return to the surface one by one like meteors, setting the skies ablaze in a post apocalyptic world filled with many adventures yet to come.
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