Reality Check
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Last published Sun, Jan 27, 2013
What would you do if you got attacked? What if your attacker was something that existed beyond the human realm... and it won't stop until your dead? Karina May is your average teenager who goes through the typical motions of...well... being a teenager. A routine consisting of school. hw. extracurriculars. school. more hw. clubs. school. even more hw. friends. then more school. and finally summer vacation. Karina is a little more than half way through hers and wants to enjoy everything it has to offer before the incipid cycle starts all over again. But after one fateful night, those mundane and trivial things will not matter anymore because there is a bigger problem, a problem that she can not handle alone, no matter how hard she tries. Lives will be lost, secrets exposed, new alliances formed, but most importantly, love found.
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