jennifer aiken

Dystopian Love Affair

A loud screeching awakened Runa, to find a crow on the broken part of the wall staring back at her, as if she weren’t supposed to be there. She could pretend that she wasn’t living in an abandoned and half destroyed castle, but the crow however wasn’t interested in her fairytales. Somehow amidst all the fear, chaos, and disaster, Runa found a corner of this crumbling castle to hide and live in. She used their fancy furniture that she found in the rubble. She had no food but sat on ornate and plush vanity chairs. All the fashions of antiquity had become new again just before the apocalypse. Runa wore the dresses she found in the rubble, so elegant and impractical, and somewhat destroyed. Runa was always home, not daring to go outside into what was still a very dangerous zone to tread.