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Allegra Hyde

Endangered

Allegra Hyde
Endangered

https://soundcloud.com/americanshortfiction/allegra-hyde-endangered   The artists were kept in cages. This was for their own good. The world had gotten really ugly, really fast, and the artists, generally, did not have the skills to survive. Most did not know how to shoot guns, for instance. Or how to make bombs out of soda bottles. The artists were a dying breed, in all honesty, which is why the government, along with a few wealthy do-gooders, put them in cages—nice cages—that … [Read more...] about Endangered

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