Chapter 3: Faux Tacky

           

Carl walked back the half mile from the cabin to town. He paused at the front of his parents house and just spent a couple of minutes looking at the studied decrepitude. He envied Evan for his distance out of town and the ability to have a place look semi-squared away, but his parents were still scarred by the time that the Radiance had come through and ran everyone off. He supposed he could imagine a worse childhood experience, but until he spent time in Afghanistan and watched the second fall of Kabul close up, he really didn’t understand.

 

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