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Mushroom
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Farzin, a simple man of simple faith, finds the end of the world has come - nuclear war has spread across the Middle East, and now he must escape with his family and find refuge.
Mushroom is a 3000-word alternate history short story set in Iran twenty years in the future.
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James Dargan
James Dargan was born in Birmingham, England, in 1974. Coming from an Irish background, he frequently writes about that experience. As well as England, he has also lived in the United States, Ireland, and - for the best part of fifteen years - in Warsaw, Poland, his home from home from home.
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Mushroom - James Dargan
Mushroom
James Dargan
Published by Danny Boy Books, 2014.
Mushroom
Copyright © 2014 by James Dargan
Published by Danny Boy Books
Book cover by Majes Nagrad
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