The Boy With Splinters
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Last published Sat, Jul 9, 2016
Its late 1940, the world appears to be grey, bleak, barren and cold. The war swept through the lands much faster than a plague, taking thousands of lives with it in a matter of days while leaving emptiness and ashes. The story takes place in a industrialized Ohio, a story revolving a boy.
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