An Unknown Endeavor

By Lucas Zahn

Nuclear war has made it so that no person is able to live above ground. This caused humanity to all live beneath the earth’s surface, down in the tunnels built in preparation for a nuclear attack. The men who used to call themselves Americans find the existence difficult but bearable. Their predicament has them yearning for other possibilities. Will they find them? Or will they be doomed to live in tunnels forever?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Land Literature, LLC
• Release date: Sep 7, 2015

Lucas Zahn

Lucas Zahn was born in the winter of 1991 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Obtaining the rank of Eagle Scout at the age of thirteen, he trained other Boy Scouts till he turned eighteen. After earning an Associates degree in Electrical Engineering Technology, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to study Electrical Engineering at the Bachelors degree level. He started writing to improve his typing and writing skills, but after a year or so he had an entertaining manuscript! With the aid of many others he was eventually able to publish his first book, "The King's Challenge: A Quest for Eternal Life" in 2012. His writing career may have just started, but it certainly is not finished!

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An Unknown Endeavor

Written By: Lucas Zahn

Published by Land Literature, LLC at Smashwords

Copyright 2015 by Lucas Zahn.

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~An Unknown Endeavor~

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

The beginning of the story

About the Author

Other books by the same Author

The Story

Deep underground far away from sunlight, a terrible hissing sound makes its way past a dimly lit hallway and into a concrete slab of a room.

When will they fix that annoying boiler? An irritated young girl asks her father.

I am not sure it will ever be fixed, we have next to no raw materials ever since the mines were closed off, He responds. The little girl shakes her head and covers her ears.

I still don’t know why they closed off the mines when we need them! And not to mention… Her father only listens to his daughter’s ranting, occasionally nodding his head. He does this for he knows the truth behind their pitiful existence, and why the people here do what they do. In the case of the mine’s closing, they had accidentally opened up a vein of rock that allowed radioactive sewage to flow. This made the surrounding tunnels highly irradiated and unfit for human habitation. The excavation group was forced to start mining from a different location in the hopes that they would be able to find essential materials again.

Human existence did not always run