SPLINTER
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After a nuclear altercation, the commander of an interceptor base is left to come to grips with the destruction of the world as he knew it. A band of friends leaves a ruined planet behind as their country burns, caught in the crossfire of a war that was not their own.
A collection of short stories set on an Earth with stark differences to our own, taken without context from a science fiction project I have been working on.
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