End of Days

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(As originally published and serialized in the University of Tasmania, Australia [UTAS] Holocaust Studies Newsletter for Q2, 3 and 4, 2317.)

The following is the first section of a factual yet restructured narrative derived from the 21st-century confessional written by one Sophia St.-Germain, a female adult survivor of the 2014-15 Pan-Global Nuclear Holocaust. Saint-Germain lived near to the town of Black Hawk, an unrecoverable site believed to have been located some 60 kilometers west of Denver, somewhere along the eastward-facing “Rocky Mountain” spine of U.S. Province 38 (then known as “Colorado”).

The narrative — in the form of a single spiral-bound cellulose notebook, reinforced and preserved between two square-shorn and modified automobile door plates — had been re-titled by later generations as a holy book, specifically as “THE BOOK OF WOMAN.” The original title, derived from the first nineteen words inscribed upon the title page in St.-Germain’s own hand, is:

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