Young Adult
Last Drop
Olive rolled over and immediately felt the muscle ache in her lower back. Since things got scarce, she’d only had a few weeks of sleeping pain-free, and at this far in, the novelty had certainly worn off. Quietly groaning as she slowly moved to prop herself up on her forearm, she checked her watch. 2 days, 18 hours and 43 minutes. That’s how long it had been since her last full glass of water. It had to be her worst streak yet.
Clare O'NeillPublished 3 years ago in FictionHeart of the Apocalyse
Nexevus, that is the name of the world we live in. Once, a bountiful, prosperous world full of resources and food, having cracked under the pressure of supporting our way of life for endless eons. Though I was just a child, I remember much of the day it happened, this is my story…
Arcane InnovationsPublished 3 years ago in FictionAurora
Mama knew it was coming. I don't know how. Perks of working for the government as a genetic engineer, I guess. She had been prepping for at least a year. Well, that's when she first told me to pack a backpack. Said we were going camping for a long time. I loved camping. I was ten. I didn't know any different. My life revolved around school, dance lessons and riding my bike.
Maggie ChungPublished 3 years ago in FictionApocalypse Future Terrors Become Reality
Someday, the human race might be just more dust in the universe. A feeling of will it be through natural disaster , global war, or something for more ominous, our darkest nightmares coming true. A plague of infected cannibals sweeping the earth. Zombie apocalypse is frightening because theoretically it can be real. Science truth becomes reality. Like if aliens wanted the earth they'll force to take it. Wouldn't be like the movies. Technology runs amok. Do we really want machines that think for themselves? Leading to a breakdown of all we hold dear. Within days, we could turn our civilization back a 1,000 years. As deadly predictions and modern science collide. We cannot support our population. We've planned our society into a dead end. Around the world people were&is preparing.People should have all of the practical preparations , so that we can survive if we need it. You awake ,look out the window . The world gone crazy. This is run for the hills stuff. Of minded thoughts to ancient apocalyptic prophecies. From the likes of Nostradamus,M revelation long foretold. A world on the edge of ruin. It's human nature to want to know , when the end will come? We'd love to know how much time we have left? I mean what's reasons many of us thinks about, what's likely to kill us if the right mind track is not set corrected as us all posted together. While some dooms day scenarios focus on acts of God,others on the dark works of man. A third category where science and humanity converge. Present some of the most horrific possibilities of all.These scenarios long relegated the pages of fiction to this way have become ever more plausible in our time. Zombie apocalypse there's something about zombies that's very primal. It's plague ,it's cannibalism and the dead walking the earth. The thinking of people biting each other .If you become bitten you wounder if you a zombie too. This is frightening theoretically can be real. We don't have the tools and we don't have the organization. To be able to effectively fight it. While zombie films have terrified moviegoers. For nearly 50 years in a remember of a real like zombie attack that was in Miami in 2012 brought fears of flesh eating monsters.It's this still in the ways? Another remember of a man attacked a homeless man, chewing off 3/4 of his face. It's was like something out of a horror movie. This is alike of covid-19 eating people inside making others eat each others in ways of spreading to each other. When law enforcement arrived to caution the social distancing everywhere to save each lives. A vision of true horror unfolded before their eyes. This was cannibals but for real of hurting one another . Could zombie phenomena comparing of covid-19 spread wider? And if so,how? The answer may be found in the microscopic killers that have decimated populations throughout human history.One of the most elements of zombies is that they are an infection. They infect us. They're essentially a virus with legs and teeth. This stuff is spreading across the planet. So they're the personification of our worst fears. Of the worst disease we could& is facing. Mankind has faced & is facing these sorts of unexpected nightmares. In medieval Europe the black death of zombies of infection want to keep & have every uninfected person heart to infect that's locked away in their love heart lockets. Wiping out 1 in 3 of the population. Spanish influenza killed more people in years ago of age in the entire first world war. We could have another pandemic tomorrow ,or we could have pandemic in another 20 years. What's certain thought is we will have another pandemic at some time in the future. If you could or would told any researcher in the late 1970's that there was going to be a deadly , sexually transmitted disease that was going to kill millions upon millions of people world wide what would u do an say? It's going to be completely incurable ,they would say that's ridiculous. HIV hit the country completely out of the blue , that's what happens with new diseases. Disease can emerge suddenly with no warning any where on the face of the earth. we weren't ready. Could the global spread of an existing disease lead to a zombie like pandemic? A look around the world paints a surprisingly bleak picture. Nature is full of disease and plagues that turn people into real life zombies. There so called nodding disease that we see at the moment of emerged sudden in the 60's. Little is known about . It's turns people almost in vegetables. You get kids affected by this thing. They rock backward and forwards.They nod their head. In the cause of how their brains are infected.They look at times like they're near death or dead.Ultimately , it kills. But before it does that children can become violent. They become mindless . The nodding disease is not alone in causing disturbing zombie like symptoms. Their is also the human variation of mad cow disease called variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease or the CJD. It's caused by a mutated protein. They are new from person to person through blood contact. On top of that , the symptoms are evolving. It causes you to go violently insane , much so that some experts have recommended that if someone starts showing advance signs of VCJD you should lock them in a room until die because it's 100% fatal. There's no treatment . If that person who is violently insane attacks you ,get their blood on you,or in you , then it's communicable. To me, that look a lot like what we think of a type of zombie like pandemic is an infectious disease ,it maybe only a matter of time until a local outbreak transforms into apocalyptic global disaster. The nightmare scenario is something air born with a slow incubation period. Somebody breaths into your face and you catch this thing, you don't feel ill for several day. In that time , you're in public places. You getting on a plan. This disease could behalf way around the world before you even know you're sick. Then it would have ability to mutate to drugs,to our immunity. It maybe that we are nothing more than the cattle to the virus , the harvest. If a zombie like disease ravage the planet in our future ,the world could quickly devolve into a nightmarish hell cape. imagine a rage disease spreading like a plague through out the world. The government and military would step in, rounding up the population. Its panic , it's blood ,its, destruction. Your civil liberties would cease to exist. You might be quarantined , experimented on or even killed. It would be the end of the world as we know it. If we went 10 years in an unstoppable flu that destroyed brains , created zombies, there would be nobody there to do research. There would be nobody there. And it's frighting . A zombie like disease in our future , it could be spark that ignites the flame of our demise. It's leaving nothing a chance. To stay alive you need to think about the basics. You need to think about water,food and shelter. Also as well of security . Essentially a battle flashing light. Should be the stun on the end of it. yeah right not to fight at virus and disease ,but the stun on the flashlight is not a good feeling that's how this virus and disease have our world, our body, our nature and lives in pain. You need the withal to live in a world that can no longer help you in just way. Human history through out lives of the world mankind has grappled with the mysteries cosmos . The possibility of intelligent life existing beyond the planet earth . Where fascinated with the idea of extraterrestrial life, because the questions of whether or not we're alone in the universe is arguably the biggest and most profound questions we can ask ourselves. If the answer is no, what does that mean for the future of our civilization? Also tied in with the question of aliens too. If aliens came on earth with hostile intent, it wouldn't be like the movie either. This is the reality of life to lives of the world.
Verniesha BarberPublished 3 years ago in FictionThe Broken Winged Bird Trilogy
"Run." The air was crisp, the night sky hanging low and heavy. I felt a sharp pain prick my lungs, pulling my consciousness toward every breath. The ringing in my ears made me aware of the eerie silence surrounding me. A bleak breeze flurried through the torn-up rags draped over my body and caused me to shiver, and rubbing gently at my bruised arms, I felt the goosebumps form on the surface of my skin.
Parti PrisPublished 3 years ago in FictionFate Caster
Fate Caster By Mandy Penney Valdez If it weren’t for my mother’s stubbornness, I wouldn’t be alive. The elders said I should be put out in the woods to die. They said it was less cruel than watching me wither away slowly. But my mother wouldn’t hear it, and even though she was tired and weak from giving birth, she wouldn’t let anyone touch me. And my father wouldn’t let anyone touch her.
Mandy P ValdezPublished 3 years ago in FictionCountdown
A young man around the age of 18 groaned, finding himself lying face up and looking at the cracked ceiling. His vision blurred in and out, and he blinked his blue eyes in order to make it clearer. He took a glance at his legs to see two concrete slabs covering them in the shape of a teepee, leaving just enough space in the gap for his legs to be squeezed underneath, long cutting off the circulation. He groaned and felt around for something to pry the large slabs so he could have room to move his legs...He found a large pipe and propped it up, beginning to slide out with difficulty, he braced his abdominal muscles together in efforts to help his process. Inch by inch the young man slowly slid his lower legs out and let out a huge sigh at the effort, laying back on the ground to catch his breath. He shuddered slightly at the tingling sensation in his lower legs, wondering how long they had been like that. He leaned with his head back, closing his eyes before gathering his thoughts.
exposure
The rain had fallen earlier in the night and the smell of it still lingered in the air. The weeds and brush still damp, clung to her pant legs like the arms of the dead reaching out to her to pull her down.
Patterns in the Static
Floor 40 Apartment C1 — not quite the vertical halfway of a residential high-rise in the vastly overpopulated Central City. There are dozens of buildings just like it at the heart of town. You would be hard-pressed to find anything unique or special about these apartments. They are dwarfed by the surrounding skyscrapers and even from the rooftops, the Great Ocean was completely out of view. From the outside these buildings were nothing more than a jumble of glass and steel littered with cluttered balconies, crooked blinds and improperly fastened air conditioning units.
Alek KalinowskiPublished 3 years ago in FictionQuartz Quarter Plans
Lelia lingered at the school gate, waiting for Tanner. Students pushed past her, laughing and making afternoon plans. Lelia glanced down at the heart-shaped locket at her neck. Absentmindedly she snapped it open to reveal the watch face underneath. 3:05.
charlotte meilaenderPublished 3 years ago in FictionGusts
The people she works with are not her friends. Her job is cruel. Her dream is selfish. She was feigning sleep the entire ride. The others believed that she was trying to avoid talking to them, just another example of her tasteless, antisocial behavior. That wasn’t the case at all; she was in fact counting the seconds until her next breath. The stale, musty air that the air-conditioner was pumping out was testing how strong her gag reflex was. Eighteen, nineteen, twenty - inhale. She was cringing on the inside, by being around these people in close quarters. The ones from the Fourth State were dirty to her.
Camila SalinasPublished 3 years ago in FictionThe Rebellion
She pulled me for what felt like forever. The wind felt like needles brushing up against my face as we ran through the icy midnight woods. My legs hurt and my feet were numb from running in only socks. We finally stopped in the middle of the woods. I watched the heat in the air disappear and reappear as I panted trying to catch my breath. She handed me Aiden, my brother, and started to dig into the snow and dirt along with four of our other neighbors. The rest of us just stood there shivering. It was dark with only the moonlight from the full moon to guide us. I begged her to explain what was happening in a whisper, but she kept demanding I be quiet.
Vic GrantlingPublished 3 years ago in Fiction