The Seeds of Man

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I would like to thank Brett Beaulieu for sharing his in-depth knowledge of garbage dumps with me. And yes, I’m serious.

And many thanks to Karin Bumbaco for all the sage advice and information related to climate change. It’s already under way, but let’s hope we can slow it down.

Lora Larsy awoke as she always did to the gentle buzz of the alarm clock located next to her bed. She hated that sound and what it meant, which was the beginning of another school day. According to books she’d read, there had once been a time when it was possible to switch schools or even drop out. But that was before the nuclear war, before billions of people were killed, and before the keepers sealed the Sanctuary off from the rest of the world. Now school was mandatory, and if she failed to show up, her absence would result in penalties for her father. A touch of a button silenced the alarm.

Lora listened but couldn’t hear any sounds coming from her father’s room. That wasn’t a surprise. Her father had been out late.

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