Roy Rhoades
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The Suspicious Package
Writers Challenge - The Suspicious Package By Roy Rhoades One Tuesday morning a postman drove up to our house and delivered a package. It was the summer of 1977 and I remember it like it was yesterday. The postman did not come to our house very much. We were on the poor side of town, and we did not get much mail, except for some bills. It was strange that the package that was just delivered was without a stamp. It didn’t even have our address on it. I heard the van pull up. I saw the driver pull away. I went to the door and there it was. It was a package with my name on it, but no address and no stamp. It was a suspicious looking package wrapped in brown paper. Attached to the package were some small berries on top.
By Roy Rhoades4 years ago in Fiction
The Heart Shaped Locket
The Heart Shaped Locket By Roy Rhoades (A Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Fictional Story) After years of watching a world come undone, I sat and reflected about the hope of a new world. My desire for reflective time found me sitting on a beach watching a sunset for the first time in years. The waves were coming graciously to the shore, and I was at peace. I took time to reflect upon a whole new world coming back into being. Recreating a world when the previous world was gone can be both threatening and invigorating. In this post-apocalyptic world, I was reflecting on the part that I was playing in this new world. I had been part of recreating something from my past and suddenly I realized that it resonated with all of society. I would discover a simple solution to helping people get back on track in this post dystopian world. My contribution came about because of rediscovering something I previously possessed, that had been lost. I also realized that in the future, governments would eventually get tired of controlling everything. Leaders would return to the idea of being servants rather than power brokers. Hackers stopped hacking. People focused on prevention and cures rather than treating disease for money. Climate change was not the apocalyptic disaster that everyone thought it would be and realized that weather just changes. The media and politicians stopped using climate change and other pandemics to bring about fear. People had spent so much time in lockdown and isolation that they started to think about what was essential in life. The future brought about change.
By Roy Rhoades5 years ago in Futurism
