X is a post-apocalyptic short story from Jack Croxall, author of the Tethers trilogy. I’ve rooted through every cardboard box a hundred times, organised and reorganised my supplies until I can recite the labels on the cans off by heart, I’ve even built a fort. Much less than a few days if the uglies manage to get in. Then, if anyone ever found it, at least I’d have left something to be remembered by. Much less than a few days if the uglies manage to get in.X is a post-apocalyptic short story from Jack Croxall, author of the Tethers trilogy.Praise for XA luminous, captivating tale perfect for giving you one of those reading 'moments'. Maybe I’d write about love and loss, or maybe the splendour of nature. Shacked up in the cellar of an old farmhouse, she starts a diary to document her final few days. When I decided I’d start this diary (five minutes ago), I thought it would be my poetic and deeply-moving goodbye to the world. My second sentence and I’ve already resorted to swearing. It’s woeful, and I bet it smelled this bad even before everything turned to crap. I spend all of my daylight hours in this musty old cellar now. What follows are the contents of a journal, the journal itself found in a farmhouse cellar somewhere in the English countryside.
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