Future Survivors, the Apocalypse Group discussion

Out of Ewr has just been released on Kindle only. It is a short story, and the entire novel will be released in the next few months. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the start of Shelter-girl Isabella's adventure through the wild Outside, her search for love, and her overwhelming desire to help the survivors of the Final Wars. (If you enjoy the book, would you be so kinds as to post a review on Amazon please?)

99.9% of humanity died fifty years ago, when the old world ended. The Earth is now a fertile but dangerous jungle world. Wildlife has prospered although often in oddly altered forms. Survivors live in underground shelters waiting generations for the environment to become safe enough to emerge.
Above ground, the radiation and poison has mutated the few humans that are left, but they do their best to survive for the 20 to 22 years they might live before the toxic planet or disease kills them.
16-year-old Isabella has grown up believing mutants are sub-human, stupid and would eat every shelter person if they had the chance, until she spies a wandering mutant tribe through the glass bottom swimming pool that is her shelter’s only light source. Isabella is fascinated by them, but it’s their 17-year-old leader, Malcolm, who truly captivates her – ebony skin, straw-colored hair, rippling muscles, four fingers on one hand and six on the other. Night after night she sneaks out of her shelter to watch the tribe, dressed in her grandfather’s chemical/radiation suit. When Malcolm discovers her, they are wary of each other at first but eventually become friends and then lovers. Isabella must decide to follow love into the perilous Outside or spend her life safely in the shelter. She wants to follow her heart, but isn't sure she is up to the challenge and danger.