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    The End of the World Is Better with Friends: A Post-Apocalyptic Story
    The End of the World Is Better with Friends: A Post-Apocalyptic Story
    The End of the World Is Better with Friends: A Post-Apocalyptic Story
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    The End of the World Is Better with Friends: A Post-Apocalyptic Story

    By M.G. Herron

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    Sid is all alone at the end of the world, with only his robot and his garden to keep him company.

    He tends his plot, and tries to keep his distance from Slimeball, the lake monster the aliens left behind. But a hot spell and the need for water finally forces him to the lake's perilous shores.

    When his clever plan to distract Slimeball goes sideways, it turns into an adventure that forever alters the way he lives his post-apocalyptic life.

    If you like post-apocalyptic stories with a sense of humor, download The End of the World Is Better with Friends today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM.G. Herron
    Release dateNov 28, 2017
    ISBN9781386326052
    The End of the World Is Better with Friends: A Post-Apocalyptic Story

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      The End of the World Is Better with Friends - M.G. Herron

      The End of The World Is Better with Friends

      M.G. Herron

      Copyright © 2017 by M.G. Herron

      MG Publishing LLC

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, businesses, events, or locales is purely coincidental. This story may not be reproduced without express written consent.

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      The End of The World Is Better with Friends

      About the Author

      Also by M.G. Herron

      The End of The World Is Better with Friends

      I stood on the bridge over the eastern dam, a dozen feet above the water’s surface, and followed Michelangelo’s trail as he whizzed by the pedestrian bridge and then past the collapsed bridge where the bats lived. Ripples in the shallow lake water trailed the quadruped robot as he zoomed toward me.

      I noted the time on my stopwatch—just under two minutes—as Michelangelo rounded the corner and came along the final stretch. In the water beside the road, the beast’s slimy tail undulated as it hurried to keep up with the speeding robot. The hair on my neck stood on end. Seeing its wake always gave me the creeps.

      Michelangelo took the last corner sharply, barely losing any speed. His dust cloud blew across the bridge, and the robot finally came to a stop next to me. I clicked a button on the stopwatch to mark the time.

      Five oh three! Now that’s what I’m talking about!

      I smacked the solar panels that doubled as the robot’s protective shell—it was squat and low like a turtle, six feet wide at the center. An orange stripe of paint crossed his central panel diagonally. You didn’t even give Slimeball time to break the surface this run. That’s a new record, Mikey.

      Michelangelo merely tilted his solar panels toward the setting sun, taking advantage of the pause to recharge. He may have been a wicked fast transport bot, but Michelangelo didn’t have the capacity for speech.

      With no one to talk to, it could get

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