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    Red Plague
    Red Plague
    Red Plague
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    Red Plague

    By Alex Witney

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    Edward Jenner has had enough of fighting the survivors of the Red Plague. He wants out, but they won't let him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex Witney
    Release dateApr 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301120451
    Red Plague
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    Alex Witney

    Alex Witney was born in Peterborough in 1988 and has lived in a number of cities and countries, and is currently based in Birmingham, UK. He attended Canterbury Christ Church University and studied Geography. Apart from writing, his main interest is film and he sporadically reviews new and old releases, all of which are available on his personal website. He started writing science fiction short stories in his final year of university, and has since produced short stories across a variety of other genres including horror and comedy. His first novel ZOMBIES: THEY'RE NOT ALL BRAIN-EATERS is out now.

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      Red Plague - Alex Witney

      Red Plague

      By Alex Witney

      Published by DMPP at Smashwords

      Copyright © Alex Witney 2013

      I can’t do it anymore, he thought to himself. Making his way down the rain soaked steps into the cathedral entrance. He was on the edge of his precinct, edge of his domain; and the edge of Aston. Too close to the outland. ‘If I stop now they might give me an office job, something low key near the city circle,’ Edward Jenner knew that wasn’t an option, ‘haven’t worked long enough to quit.’

      The arch he was walking through was darker than he had anticipated, the light from the streets barely made it down into the trenches. The cathedral was large but mostly underground. Spires of metal sticking up through the cobbled streets, with stairways and trenches surrounding it. A distant memory of long ago, when places

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