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Gateways
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Ongoing, First published Jan 07, 2020
Mature
This isn't a feel good it's a sci-fi horror with a twinge of romance but not alot. 

"I remember the day they came to earth. They came and destroyed everything that was and could have been."

"I love you why can't you just listen to me!"
"Because I don't love you!  You know that, I never wanted this, this was you, your fault. Not mine. YOURS."

You will never know what she was, you will never know where she started. But you will know were she needs to get to. WHO she needs to get back to. What she finds changes everything.
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