Stories tagged “nuclear war”
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The Lone Wanderer
Day 74 since nuclear fallout. Diary entry number 50. Time 6:23 PM. Temperature 32 degrees Fahrenheit. I awoke to a kind fellow today, who took me in late last night. As I recall I had a gash on my thigh, he stitched it while I asleep. Or, erm, passed o...
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Homeward flight
No one knew if these old devices, mothballed for decades, would even work. Sensors indicated that the device had functioned as intended but with blinds protecting the crew from the flash, and strict radio silence they wouldn’t know for certain un...