The Lucky Ones
It’s been 13 days since our last contact.
We saw the news just like everyone on Earth in the days leading up to it. ‘It’ as it came to be known. It started as reports of unexplained deaths, seemingly random riots, water supplies cutting off for days at a time - strange stuff. At first, we didn’t think much of it, wary of all news broadcasts as usual. But these seemingly random occurrences became more frequent, reports more serious, until we couldn’t dismiss it anymore. Soon our calls to loved ones were spent talking about it and not much else. Slowly, the news became nothing but chaos until it all we would see; I couldn’t even escape it in my dreams.