Hardened Ashes
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Last published Mon, Feb 22, 2021
Autumn McIvers, Ash Harley, Luke Aluara, Vanessa Fielders and Henry Mattison.
Five high school students, who have one thing in common.
Fear of needles.
And when their bankrupt school consents to testing a vaccination for a little known virus, they volunteer to be in the first groups. To get it over and done with of course. Would you really want to wait for ages for metal to inject some unknown substance into you?
Autumn, Ash, Luke and Vanessa are in the first group. Henry in the second. And they have to test out different vaccinations. But it doesn't go as planned.
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Hidden away in a centre due to severe reactions to the substance, these five children must escape.
Only to emerge in a post-apocalyptic world right out of the movies.
The vaccination has caused strange side effects.
Well... strange is an understatement.
All those injected have been killed. But their bodies have renewed themselves into a single minded organism that dissolves into ashes. It absorbs bodies. It kills every creature it touches.
There is no escape.
How will five children survive in this new, ruined world?
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