The Shadows and Nightmares
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Imagine the whole world is attacked by monsters..
Everyone thought they would come from space. But they didn't.
Whilst everyone was looking to the skies, the world was ending at their feet.
And when the world ends..
What's left is survivors..
Eight months was all it took for everything to fall apart.
Maybe that's how it should stay..
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Leo is just a bookworm who would love for this whole apocalypse to end, and for everything to be the way it used to be.
Maybe also, for all the books he finds to not be water logged...
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Eli, he just wishes that he was able to play volleyball again.. Without having to worry about getting home before dark.
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Tahlia wishes for a lot of things.. but nothing more than the embrace of a Christmas with her whole family.
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Hazel wishes that this whole apocalypse like event had never happened.
And that she still had her family.
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But there's nothing you can do but survive.
Especially if you have to trek halfway up the Australian coast with monsters lurking within every shadow.
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Please note that this book does contain swearing and some homophobia, it also contains panic attacks (if only mild and very few) and suicidal ideation.
This book also contains talk of death in the past and death itself.
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These characters are all in their early 20's and are all my own characters.
And hence belong to myself.
If you wish to use said characters in other works please credit myself within the work :)
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