The World After…Two years later, June 2027
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Taylor Swansea walked to the porch with a loud sigh of relief. He dumped the heavy backpack he carried on the wooden floor and sat in his favourite rocking chair. He stretched his feet forward, pulled out a pipe from his inside pocket, filled it with home-grown tobacco and leaned back to enjoy the splendid view of rocky hills and running streams that were all around.
The one-floor wooden house was placed under the shade of two-century-old walnut trees, and at the back of it, there was a vast garden filled with flowers, all kinds of edible plants, and further up the steep hill, where the pine forest started, there was a fenced area which was quite noisy because of the domesticated animals living there.
Taylor filled his mouth w
