Run
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Last published Sun, Sep 26, 2021
When Shane Newman tries to go to work one beautiful sunny morning, he finds that his car won't start, his cellphone is dead, and his garage door won't close. Then planes begin falling out of the sky, and all hell breaks loose.
As he races with his wife and infant daughter away from whatever is coming out of the west - a thing that can barely be seen, heard, felt, or even described - he will eventually discover a horrifying truth: that the end of the world is beyond imagination.
Until then, there is only one thing he and his family can do. And that is...
Run.
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