Ashfall In Ceder Falls

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Ashfall

In Ceder Falls, Iowa Alex Halprin thought staying alone in on the weekend would be awesome, until Yellowstones’ Supervolcano explodes and his house comes crashing down on him, with him narrowly escaping death. He stays with his neighbors, hiding in their Jacuzzi while their lives apart. He goes on a trek across Iowa to his uncles farm in Illinois, where the rest of his family is staying. Along the way, he meets a man named Target, with a big bullseye tattoo on the back of his head giving him his name. Target and Alex duke it out, ending with Target without a eye, and burns all over his body. Alex got cut in the side with a handaxe. Stumbling around in his stupor of pain, he comes across a barn with a girl and her mom. He collapses

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