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Scythe
Waiting Pale lilac eyes went dark. She didn’t need the display to stay live in order to see, but they made the patients feel more at ease. The waiting room was quiet and empty, which suited her just fine. She hummed softly to herself as she focused on the task at hand. Florence Model 1.9-10-000000 had been assigned report duty today, while her fellow 9-10-Gals aided the doctors in the back. This hospital, though in the heart of the city, was small and at times seemed over-staffed. Today she was glad that they had no pressing need of her. Her lips twitched into a secret smile since she knew the peace wouldn‘t last for much longer. She sensed that it would begin here soon, and she would be all too busy for a few weeks. She hummed to herself as she connected to her office computer, uploading the notes from the few patients she had assisted today. Her focus split between the task at hand and remembering how the increased workload she expected soon began with her first trip overseas less than a month ago. She had left her home for Moscow after Dr. Anthony’s funeral. The trip was brief, followed by her uneventful return to the United States.
By Katherine Hanson5 years ago in Fiction
The Silence
Recollection Log, Entry 2: I never thought that I would be here for this kind of post-apocalyptic B.S. but here I am accompanying a team of twelve to a rations zone. It has been three years, eight months and a day since the world changed. Some say it happened gradually at first, taking over the wildlife then spreading to humanity, but with no clear evidence, who really knows? At one point I believed we would have had a fighting chance if we caught it in time…I know now that it would not have mattered.
By Ryan Sam Fong5 years ago in Fiction
The 1%
“Testing, testing, how do I know when this thing is recording? Damnit, I was never any good with fancy tech.” I peer inside the hollo-locket Grandpa gave me on our last day together. He had squirrelled it away as we scavenged through an old tech store for usable parts. It was meant to be a gift for my 18th birthday.
By The Creative Chimera 5 years ago in Fiction
'Til Death Do Us Part: A Tale of Two Lockets
Sloan Evans drummed her fingers anxiously on the armrest of her office chair. She had painstakingly assisted countless clients on completing the questionnaire she now faced herself. Sloan and Edgar had yet to set a wedding date, but nothing could move forward until they submitted the pre-nuptial forms now mandated by the federal government.
By ALEXA L. DAVIS5 years ago in Fiction
Humanity Is A Portal
My desire for the truth makes me different from the rest of the population. My inner knowing, that life does not have to be so full of hatred and pain, is also a sign of my difference to the rest. I am sure that I am not the only person who has this feeling, but I have no idea how I would find anyone else.
By Amelia Randall 5 years ago in Fiction
The Inhabitors
Levi sits idle at the radio. Shifting through different frequencies. Waiting for someone to answer him, to tell him if it’s safe, if anyone’s alive. 2 weeks without contact, he would’ve gone stir crazy by now if it wasn’t for Zoey. However, she hadn’t been much of a talker since the radio silence. ‘Hello? This is bunker 7, is anyone there?’ Levi repeated in hopes to hear a static voiced reply. Nothing.
By Bethany McDonald5 years ago in Fiction
The Eruption of All Time
It was 3 am in the morning on a Thursday night in summer and the soft hum of the clothes dryer droned in the background. Molly sat at her desk pondering life prior to the eruption at Yellow Stone Park. Several days following the eruptions, universal forces began to descend on the earth in droves. Just a couple of months prior to the world changing as everyone knew it, her sister visited to assist with her son's DUI court date. Molly could not take the day off to drive him to court so her sister drove five hundred miles to visit and take him on his court date.
By Kristina Castor5 years ago in Fiction
Reality Can Be Changed
The world is unfair. It is unfair and it is cruel. Nothing ever goes your way anymore, and if it does, then prepare for that last sliver of hope to be crushed by reality. This is what reality has come to, and reality is something that you cannot change.
By Kat FitzGerald5 years ago in Fiction
Them Percy Shelley Blues
John believed in the sanctity of life. Well as much as he believed in anything, John believed in the sanctity of life. Only damn thing worth defending, truth be told. He knew people had a real hard-on for possessions and ownership, but that was never really his bag, so to speak. You used them, they broke, you got more. Nothing lasts forever out here. People, objects, empires; they’d all be dust by the end.
By James McBride5 years ago in Fiction
