Аннотация
How do you survive when eye-contact can mean instant death?
Set your priorities, recite your mantra, and keep a bandanna handy.
In a world where death is only a thought away, society has collapsed and seven survivors shelter together in a basement stronghold. Each haunted by a troubled past, they struggle through their private purgatories to rebuild trust, faith, and hope for the future.
When one of them fails to return from a foraging expedition and a stranger arrives in their makeshift sanctuary, the group is forced to confront its fragile equilibrium.
Is the newcomer a saving grace or an angel of death?
Based on a short film of the same name, the first novella by Carl A.S. Bystrom mixes apocalyptic horror and grim mystery into a labyrinth of choices made in the face of death.

![Выжить для того, для кого выживание не цель, а всего лишь условие для выполнения поставленной задачи, – не проблема. Даже если вводная такая же дикая... Это моя земля! [СИ недописано]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/eto-moya-zemlya-si-nedopisano_284013.jpg)
![In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, two women seek to preserve the small treasury of books available to them—a gift of knowledge and hope for future generations.
“[A] poignant expression of the durability, grace, and potential of the... A Gift Upon the Shore](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/a-gift-upon-the-shore_366992.jpg)



![Зло явилось в страну, которая некогда поклялась «жить по закону Божьему и людскому», но стала жить — по закону жадности и ненависти.
Зло явилось во облике... Песня Сван [=Наслаждение смертью]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/pesnya-svan-naslazhdenie-smertyu_143327.jpg)





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