A very short yet well written story...
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The threat of extinction had brooded like a storm cloud over the heads of mankind since its conception. But when finally a great catastrophe came, it was not in the form of war or nuclear death. Perhaps, in some ways, that would have been a more preferable fate.
It was the coming of the ice. It was always the coming of the ice.
Mankind survived, in isolated pockets. Along with some of the other animals, they began to carve out a primeval existence in the eternal winter. The strong flourished and the weak perished. It was the lucky ones who prevailed. That was the cycle.
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