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    Badland
    Badland
    Badland
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    Badland

    By J.D Evies

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    Twenty five years later, things have gotten worse. The united power has taken over all corners, rotting the lives of its people by subduing their will. In the sleep of an entire society, a group of teenagers dare to expose all the crimes committed by the main line of authority to wake conscience and stir society into action.
    In this sequel from the previous short story (shattering), the government has mutated; hooking up on the despair and disseminating its dominance to the minds of the less-fortunate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ.D Evies
    Release dateAug 2, 2015
    ISBN9781311295156
    Badland
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    J.D Evies

    As a writer, I love expressing ideas through different realities focusing on many situation life provides.

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      Badland

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      There was a scent of moisture in the air, and the vibe was tart. No much wildlife scattered the terrain. Leafless trees around glimpsed a long drought season. Some leaves piled upon a scraped roof of a worn-out deck. The pillars that supported it sank into gritty soil, going through a base that elevated a meter from the ground. Time had consumed heavily the endurance of the walls, wearing down the timber, letting the termite find a warm nest in it. The floor, chapped and bumpy, disclosed the housing’s lifespan.

      Inside the cottage, a deep and labored breath hardly spread along, breaking the dead silence.

      "I was thinking about myself. I should’ve done something. He trusted me, but I was a coward. And now, after twenty years, I dare for the first time to confess my sins."

      An old man was sat on a Windsor chair. Bending, his broken eyes fixed on a brick fireplace as his knees creaked under the weight of his rugose elbows.

      "I don’t ask for forgiveness. I always played safe back then. But the reasons don’t matter anymore… Because what I did, can’t be undone."

      The old man dragged his feet towards a narrow counter. He poured tea into a cracked mug, and sipped. Like the rest of his senses, his tongue had waned significantly the sensation of taste.

      But as age bounded the inevitable sensitivity loss, his judgement still worked, lucid in the myriad of his endeavors. He looked for something in his pants’ pockets.

      A second later, he was holding a case with several compartments. His fingers made a flyby, stopping at one named Friday. He slid upward the snap lid, and threw a compressed tablet into his mouth. Then he dropped himself on a cold stall, and began doing nothing

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