Nocturnal Humans
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Last published Fri, Jul 8, 2011
"I'm either going to run fast enough, or I'm going to die."
It's thousands of years into the future, and global warming has driven the human race underground, and into the dark. The govenment has passed a law that states that no one is allowed to go outside when the sun is up, or you will be burned alive by the sun's rays. But as the old saying goes: Rules are meant to be broken.
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