Bullet Points 8 (Paperback)

When the world ends, the war for what remains begins. In the silence of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the survivors find that the only thing more dangerous than the world around them is the person next to them. Now read stories from Bullet Points 8 that explore the grit, the absurdity, and the slivers of hope in the wreckage of tomorrow:

• Lena Ng, "The Night We Saw the Stars": Amidst the ruins of an alien invasion, a mother uses the beauty of a clear night sky to give her child a reason to keep breathing.
• Alexander Hay, "XPLOD": Reality is literally unravelling, and a team must fight through a landscape of marshmallows and talking washing machines to stop the processors destroying existence.
• Joyce Frohn, "Boots": Forgotten in a bunker where the war never ended, a soldier discovers that a clean pair of officer's boots is the only Christmas miracle left.
• Bishop Garrison, "Conscription": Sentenced to serve in the storm-lashed ruins of Seattle, a conscript discovers that surviving the weather is just as deadly as the bandits hunting in the shadows.
• Ralph Benton, "War Hero": Inside the steel heart of a tokatank, a young trooper and his augmented war dog navigate a rebel city where the line between hero and butcher has long since blurred.
• D. J. Thiess, "Granny Heloise’s Fertilizer Bomb": In a world choked by surveillance and jackboots, a revolutionary hunts through the rubble for the one family recipe that can still level a city.
• J. T. Gill, "Bombardier": For a man who has spent a lifetime erasing entire worlds from existence, the hardest target to face is the one that isn't there.
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