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With a Bang Not a Whimper by Diane M Dickson

August 19, 2015August 3, 2018 literallystories2014

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With a bang not a whimper, that’s what they said.  At the end it’ll be a fierce cataclysmic implosion and all will be gone in seconds.

But it’s wasn’t, it’s not.

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