The Ashes of Humanity
Lyriis
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Lyriis
Ongoing, First published May 13, 2024
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2100, fifty years after the biggest pandemic which killed the half of Mankind, a young man was born after the virus appeared. He is a part of the rare humans who weren't infected and mutated. 

When the sky almost always produces  noxious and grayish ashes instead of acid rain, and the land is only poisonous and blackened flora, how can you survive ?

Esteban needs to travel every day outside his town, to find the rare places where the ground is not infected, to feed his family while risking his life by fighting the scary Enemy. Who is not so different from us, except maybe its long, tapered tongue, and its imposing animal build...

How to survive in this world which mankind left wither away... ?

Hello everyone ! I am a young french author who wants to translate her short novel in english, I'll publish my short story here, so if you can give me some advices, it will be great ! Thanks so much !
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