The Border Effect — Christine Pacinda

In the dark of night, a small group of illegal immigrants climb over the battered barbed wire fence that marks the otherwise invisible border between two very different worlds. They bring with them something more substantial than their dreams for a better life, something more sinister than contraband, and something more destructive than guns. Thirteen years after that fateful day the world has been changed irrevocably. Governments have fallen, chaos ensued, and humanity has suffered a tragic, fateful blow. In the wake of global devastation, a small group struggles to rebuild society and combat the persistent threats to human existence. Does the enemy have a face, or is it alive in all of us, waiting to escape?