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Robert F. Youngs new story is full of eerie and compelling images it concernsa time traveler who voyages to the after-math of the Battle of Armageddon andmakes a chilling discovery... Revolution 20 BY ROBERT F. YOUNG After stepping out of my time machine the Time Traveler said I dragged it into a nearby copseand camouflaged it with branches that I cut from the trees. I knew it would not be long before the leaveson the branches died and fell to the ground revealing the machines presence hut this posed no problemfor I did not plan to remain in the future for more than a day. I had no idea what year I had emerged in but I knew from the in-structions with which I hadpro-grammed the machine that spatially at least with respect to Earth I had not moved an inch. I did not believe however des-pite the fact that my house had dis-appeared from around me anddes-pite the presence of a copse where none had existed before that my leap through time exceeded halfa century until emerging from the trees and looking down upon the plain that spread out below and farbeyond the hill on which my house had stood I saw that the vast expanse of cultivat-ed fields that hadgreeted my eyes quotthat morningquot when I looked out my bedroom window had become a ne-cropolis. The graves spread out both to right and left as far as my gaze would go and extended into thedistance before me till at last a city which stood where no city had stood be-fore barred their way.Most of them
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