When the rains may come (Science Fiction)
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Cathy is the last person left in Sector 21 after her father contracted the virus that consumed half of the nation. She watches the planes flying past over her roof everyday. And even after firing a dozen signal flares, no one has responded to her cry for help.
Day after day she spends staring up at the dark purple clouds through her window while her desolate neighborhood starts to seem more and more lifeless. But one day...something changes.
There's a knock at the door. Is this Cathy's way out of her empty existence? Or maybe a passage into a life full of chaos?
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