Without A View
Missing the days when the soot was thick throughout the air. Time seemed to inch by as slowly as the black particles laced through the atmosphere hung about. Those days, there was really no sunshine and one would choke to breathe without an apparatus - the constant coldness from lack of solar heat was the new normal and those remaining on earth had grown to accept it. To think back on those days, it was manageable because we could still go outside. Supplements, gas masks, warm clothes moving about - we even learned to grow food and filter water with strictly limited sunlight. We all waited for the days of the black ash to finally clear, however we never knew what waited for us on the other side of that clearing. Little did anyone know, not even those left behind who were The Experts, who had helped humanity move from the months of nonstop nuclear bombing and destruction of our planet to almost evisceration and then to sooty blackness, knew.