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    The Sleeping Ones
    The Sleeping Ones
    The Sleeping Ones
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    The Sleeping Ones

    By Samuel Fires

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    "Hello, hello? Is anybody out there?"

    Four-point-nine billion people dead already. Killed by the virus.

    London, England. 32-year old simple-minded Sally Jones is all alone with her mother lying dead in the house and her decomposing dad outside in the yard.

    Sally's searching for someone, just anybody to answer her - her only connection is the internet, and there's one line open. But not for much longer.

    The conversation that ensues will fascinate and shock you.

    As Sally struggles with the macabre reality and the devastating losses, her new found friends struggle to reconcile the current state of the world and where fate will take them.

    The Sleeping Ones will draw you in and refuse to let you go. Get your copy today!

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSamuel Fires
    Release dateSep 22, 2020
    ISBN9781393627180
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      The Sleeping Ones - Samuel Fires

      The Sleeping Ones

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      By Sam J Fires

      It’s a dead-dead world out there......

      Copyright 2020 by Samuel Fires Publications. All Rights Reserved

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, places, organizations, or person, whether living or dead, is entirely coincidental. This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      The Dead Streets

      Chapter Two

      Wake Up Mummy

      Chapter Three

      New Friends

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      Chapter One

      The Dead Streets

      London, England, October 17th, 2021 - It’s a chilly afternoon in the leafy suburbs of London, and it’s quiet. Too quiet. There isn’t a soul around, nor has there been for the better part of three weeks now. The last news reports that came out, when there were still services up and available that is, was of total annihilation.

      There is a bloated body lying in the front garden of a two-story terrace that reads 46 Ludley Lane in gold numbers. It’s lying facedown on the grass. And it’s been there for awhile as indicated by the swarm of flies that surround it and bombard it, and the maggots that gnaw away at its decomposed flesh.

      The pandemic is now ninety-six days into its stranglehold on society as

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