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Dust
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  • Reads 344,393
  • Votes 19,784
  • Parts 31
  • Time 5h 26m
Complete, First published Mar 14, 2015
All the earth is torn asunder.

There used to be grass, and the sun used to be golden. Children played outside, climbing trees with smiles on their faces and grass stains on their knees. People worried about a million things that would soon be irrelevant, continuing without a clue of the disaster to come.

Centuries later, what little is left of humanity survives in a society constructed beneath the surface of a glass dome, the world outside converted to little more than a desert wasteland. Survival is a routine rather than an effort, and all rules are surpassed by only one: if you want to survive, you never leave the dome. There's nothing alive out there. The radiation that soaks the earth makes sure of that.

Until one day, someone finds a bloody, dust-covered handprint on the outside of the glass.

Nothing will ever be the same again.



Book 1 of the Burning Series

Highest ranking: #13 in Adventure on 03/04/16
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