Earth's "New" Normal
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Last published Thu, Oct 29, 2020
It's 2020 and Covid-19 has broken out. It's a huge and historic challenge that many will not make it through. But they've just found a cure, a cure that could fix it all. But then again, it's rather unusual that they found it so quickly, where it came from? Well, that's what they won't tell. You see, when you begin to trust in the hands of science a little too much, that's when things go wrong.
The 'Cure' worked of course, it gave them immunity but then it didn't stop. It made them all into monsters...
So brace yourself because it is coming, brace yourself for;
The "New" Normal...
*A fantasy/sci-fi twist on the epidemic of Covid-19 and how a brother and sister, alone in this chaos, survive it. But survival comes at great cost*
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