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    Strange Country
    Strange Country
    Strange Country
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    Strange Country

    By Mike Ramon

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    A short story.

    After an unnamed event leads to the breakdown of society, a husband and wife make their way through a country that is forever changed. Taking shelter in a cabin in the woods, they seem to have found a safe place to stay awhile. But winter is coming, and the wife is carrying a secret.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Ramon
    Release dateNov 11, 2020
    ISBN9781005697815
    Strange Country
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    Mike Ramon

    Born and bred in the Midwest.

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      Strange Country - Mike Ramon

      STRANGE COUNTRY

      Mike Ramon

      © 2020 M. Ramon

      Smashwords Edition

      This work is published under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0). To view this license:

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      The fall was quicker than she would have expected. Electricity was the first thing to go, followed soon by running water. This didn’t strike her as unthinkable in and of itself. A temporary loss of these things seemed natural, given the circumstances, but if asked she would have said that it would surely be temporary. Soon, the government would recover, maybe at the local level first, and then up the chain to the state and federal levels. The rules that seemed to have

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