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First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Strange Exit

First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Strange Exit

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Plants, Hills, Sunset, Young Adult, Post-Apocalypse, Science Fiction, Space, Ship, Strange Exit, Parker Peevyhouse, Door,
The San Francisco Zoo: gates rusted open, weeds bursting through cracks in the asphalt, trees like many-armed scarecrows, broken and stunted. Lake figured she was the only person to set foot in the place in years. Not counting the boy in the tiger exhibit.

First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Devils Unto Dust

First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Devils Unto Dust

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Devils Unto Dust, Emma Berquist, Red, Desert, Sand, Zombies, Horror, Young Adult
Life out here is hard, my mother used to say, so you have to be harder. Even she wasn’t strong enough to fight off the sickness. By the end she was just a shell of herself, her skull showing through the skin on her face, talking nonsense when the delirium took her. Sometimes she didn’t know who I was or what was happening. And then she remembered, and it was worse.