The Last Man on Earth Club

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The forest along the valley had been safe for thousands of years. No deadly animals hid among the leaves to poison and devour the unwary. Floods never swept away soil and trees. Fire never consumed the branches. Volcanic ash never choked the landscape to make a desert of barren cinders. The sun never blighted the land with ultraviolet radiation that could kill everything down to the last microbe.

Nor had the forest ever been stripped of leaves and branches by rain so acidic it could mark steel. It had not known the blast, the light, the heat, or the radiation from a nuclear fireball. Survivors of a terrible war had never fled through the trees, pursued by robotic hunters. Gene-mutated horrors had never oozed across the leaf litter, digesting all the biomass they could absorb. Invaders from a distant universe had never swept down from the skies, darting tentacles among the branches to drag the last remaining people to slavery on another world.

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