What Lies Beyond
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Last published Thu, Aug 6, 2020
After nuclear war breaks out around the globe, the aftermath leaves millions dead.
The world is thrust into a man-made ice age, a seemingly endless nuclear winter. Crops don't grow and very few animals survive. People turn to cannibalism as they fight for survival, others choosing to worship the mutated monsters roaming the lands in hopes of God sparing them.
As the population dwindles a few surviving colonies band together, far off in Washington, a safe place.
Washington is a long ways away.
I can do it.
For him.
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