Different People
ShortStory 5,026 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"You never expect to meet one of the refugees. You aren’t a scientist or a politician, you’re a middle school history teacher. The story of the refugees from a destroyed parallel Earth... should fade into the background of your life like every other major news story and tragedy, present but mostly forgotten."
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death
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