Outmoded.
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Last published Sat, Jan 3, 2015
Empires rise and fall constantly, akin to a tide on a rocky shore. But what happens to their cadavers? Buildings don't just vanish.
This knowledge brings our curious reporter to the scene. Prepared to bypass journalistic ethics for a good yarn, they infiltrate into the deepest end of it all. Where time has whittled a halcyon empire to a forgotten husk.Outmoded is a tale on how quickly the present can become history. On how the passage of time cruelly plagues us all.
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