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  • Natalie Oliver August 2021 before the blackout
    Character

    Natalie Oliver: The Person Kimberly Needed Without Knowing She Needed Anyone

    ByStu McEwing April 1, 2026April 1, 2026

    Natalie Oliver is 22 years old. She’s from Indiana. She saved up for two years after high school, packed everything she owned, and moved to New York City at twenty to start college at one of the city’s many universities. She had never lived anywhere bigger than a mid-sized town in the Midwest and she…

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  • Kimberly Sterns August 2021 before the blackout
    Character

    Kimberly Sterns: Writing a Teenager Who Has Already Survived Too Much

    ByStu McEwing March 29, 2026April 1, 2026

    Kimberly Sterns is 17 years old. She lives alone in a two bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side. She works part time at a GameStop. She goes to high school. She makes her own dinner most nights and waits for her father to come home on weekends. On the surface, she manages. That’s the…

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  • EMP blackout New York City darkness
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    The Anatomy of a Blackout: How a Single EMP Changes Everything

    ByStu McEwing March 29, 2026April 4, 2026

    It’s a Friday evening in autumn. New York City is doing what it always does at that hour. Restaurants are full. Subways are packed. Somewhere over the Hudson, the lights of Newark flicker against a sky that’s just starting to turn cold for the first time since summer. Then at 7:03 PM everything stops. Not…

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