Leaving The Dome
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Last published Thu, Dec 18, 2014
Based many years after a world-war, the Earth has been covered in radiation and people pushed into protective biodomes to avoid Radiation Poisoning. Audoxton Hughes, a lonely, middle-aged man is on a mission to find his family and a cure to radiation-induced Cancer after the glass of a protective bio-dome breaks exposing him to radiation. He must travel over 100 miles through radiation and rugged, apocalyptic terrain to a completely foreign biodome city to save himself and reunite with his beloved wife and three children. Will he make it in time to save himself, or will he die trying?
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