Alex Cordray

Day of Jubilation

My generation is the sixth generation since the Reckoning. My generation couldn’t remember the Reckoning, we studied it from a Scholar; she couldn’t remember it either, nor could her mother, but it had been important once, so we were taught to remember. We speak its name with learned remorse and loss, even though we cannot comprehend the devastation. Destruction rippled across oceans, continents, cities, and countries and ripped open a wound most never to be healed. As the world lay bleeding, humanity did its part and survived.