Gant Laborde

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“The Bunker” by Gant Laborde

Submitted to Contest #279

The fourth day was when everything started to fall apart. It wasn’t the food, though none of us had much appetite left. It wasn’t the stale air, even though it clung to us like a second skin. It wasn’t even the radiation gauge Hank brought back; its needle was frozen in the red zone. It was something else, something unspoken, shifting like haunting shadows in the corners of the bunker, a growing realization some of us might not get out of this alive. We didn’t talk about it. We played Monopoly instead. Hank cheated to keep Zelda in the gam...

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