Ever since Earth was invaded, I have been running.
From the Droppers, Hunters, my enemies, my past, and myself.
But now, I can't run anymore. I'm trapped and there's no escape.
All I can do is keep on moving and keep on breathing, but I don't know how much longer I can hold on.
My time with my family and him is my only anchor, but I'm starting to drown.
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Ashtynn Underwood has learned over the past year that it is survival of the fittest on Earth. But she never knew just how unforgiving Earth had become. After falling into the clutches of the Droppers once again, she finds herself battling against her inner thoughts as well as the creatures on the outside. Ash knows she has to go back to the darker parts of herself that she has tried to lock away before, but has failed. As of now, the creature inside of her is begging to come out and save her, but Ash knows if she gives in to the darkness, she will become it. So she has to cling to her light... Rhett. But he isn't here, just the memory of him. Now, she lives by this mantra, it being the only thing holding her together: I will not break again.
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Rhett Vinson has gone through more than others in the past year. After becoming Captain in Haven, his life has not stopped moving. He has been on a rollercoaster ride that has never stopped... ever since he met Ashtynn Underwood. He didn't know it when he first looked at her that night in North Dakota, but she would come to change his life... but right now, it's not for the best. With Ash gone, Rhett doesn't know what to do with himself. The only thing keeping him going is his faith that he will find her again. But, as he stated before, the Drop has caused humanity's darker parts to come out, and his is showing at full force. On his journey to get Ash back, his voice is filled with these words: I will find her again.
Some fates are worse than death--survival is one of them.
In the two hundred years since humanity left the Earth's surface to live in the sky, life on the ground faded to a myth, a tragic memory from which they severed themselves to survive. They floated above continents turned to sand and lands swallowed by the seas, watched storm after storm rage against their cities and their monuments until they broke apart the last vestiges of civilization in penance for generations of human greed.
As a lightning harvester charged with flying her ship into these storms for energy, Raina has seen more of the planet than most. She has spent her entire life soaring above its craters and scars, studying the gaping wounds of human devastation, as she honed her skills and became the youngest captain in storm-chaser history.
Her ship has flown for generations. Her skills are unparalleled.
But none of that matters the day they go down.
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Praise for Earth, After:
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"Sometimes tearing my eyes away from the page is torture. Gosh...!!!!"
"This is literally a movie - the images are so clear!"
"oh my god... it has been such a long adventure [...] Youve dried up your surviving characters until the very last drop before giving the end, and my, Im speechless. Out of this world."
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Highest rank:
#17 in Adventure 25/08/19
#21 in Science Fiction 16/11/19
#24 in Action 01/01/20
Trident Awards Winner
Trident Awards Judges' Favourite Award
The Aurora Awards 1st Place in Science Fiction
Wattpad Chronicle monthly feature April 2020