Tresse Butler

The Cure

The Earth kept asking us to do better. We said: “No fuck it, you deal!” So it did. December 31st, 2052. As we counted down, 3… 2… 1… most of the water evaporated or froze. We call it “the cure” because the world healed itself that day. People went crazy. Some thought it’d fix itself. However, within a year, all the crops died, the animals and eventually over 95% of the world’s population. It’s now 2057, five years after the water left. Those of us still alive, travel to rumors of where the water exists.