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Submitted to Contest #60
It all started with that god forsaken sword. Yes, the one so famously thrust into the stone, only to be removed by the ‘one true king’. Excalibur, if the myths are to be believed. But those stodgy old storytellers got it wrong, every last one of them. It didn’t bring peace or prosperity, it brought death and destruction on a scale that the world had never before witnessed. A virus of some sort swept across the globe, killing off a vast majority of the population. Those lucky bastards, they didn’t have to witness what came next. Droughts foll...
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