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They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.

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Jonathan Maberry
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 18
Author
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Kensington
Philadelphia
Shane MacDougall
Around
Killers
World
Shelter
Closed
Held
Seethed
Tiny
Wept
Dead
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