Facing Freedom
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Last published Tue, May 11, 2021
A chemist makes a grave mistake, costing many people their lives and throwing the world as we know it into an apocalypse. The year is 4001 and the government has taken hold and has proclaimed war among the people over an illusion of free will. War criminals are still at large, and the resistance will stop at nothing to reclaim their freedoms and livelihoods. Will the resistance face certain death or finally face freedom?
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