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The Runner: The Author's Cut

DeathraptorWrites

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Reads 53
Votes 6
Parts 18
Time 3h 16m

DeathraptorWrites

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180 years after The Fall and The Rip, Adrian Blake, a young man living in the Tower-Slum City State of Portland, OR is hired by the local resistance group to deliver a call-to-arms out into The Frontier to unite the various factions which call these reclaimed wildlands home. However trouble brews when Adrian discovers the true motives of the Resistance and quickly finds himself in the crossfire of a conflict much more complicated than he once thought and where the line between good and evil are very much blurred. Set in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest, The Runner is sure to delight local readers and those with an interest in post-apocalyptic, western, and dystopian fiction. New Chapters Every Monday!

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Gold Dust Widow: The Story of an Outlaw's Revenge

The last thing US Marshal Jasper expects to find after a gunfight with a band of outlaws is a woman. She's dressed like a man, she swears like a man, she's and deadly with a gun, and she's gorgeous. But Clara has a past she's been running from, a name on her kill list, and she won't let anybody, handsome lawman or not, get in the way of her revenge.