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The Day the Lights Went Out: A Collection of Short Stories
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 12 2025
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Day the Lights Went Out
It happened in an instant-every machine, every connection, every convenience of the modern world failed. No warning. No reason. Just silence.
As the world darkens, five very different lives unfold:
A systems administrator walking home through a city stunned into stillness.
An Amish farmer living quietly in harmony with the land.
A billionaire confronted with the emptiness of his isolation.
A country singer rediscovering his voice by candlelight.
Their worlds never should have crossed-but now they share the same question: What does it mean to be human when the systems we built no longer define us?
Told with grace and clarity, The Day the Lights Went Out is not just a story of global collapse. It is a meditation on connection, memory, resilience, and the quiet truths that emerge when the noise of the world disappears.
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