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The End
All it took was a single heart shaped locket; that was what ended the world. The ship had crashed in the middle of New York City. There was no denying what had happened. Extraterrestrials were real and they had come to Earth. That would have been enough to have scientists and the world in an uproar. The bodies themselves could only be identified by their bones, but what took it from madness to true insanity was the heart shaped locket. The one thing that had survived in a truly whole state clutched in tightly to one of the bodies. When it was found it wasn’t of some far off world. The two pictures inside were of a family very much on Earth, in a McDonald’s of all places. Extraterrestrials weren’t just visiting, they were living on Earth.
By Justin M McGranahan3 years ago in Fiction
The Junior that Knew too Much
In the bushes, off to the side of the compound, Julie counted to herself, ‘1,2,3’ as she wiped the sweat from her brow. It was just before sunset, but the heat felt like midday. In the bushes, off to the side of the compound, Julie counted to herself, ‘1,2,3’ as she wiped the sweat from her brow. It was just before sunset, but the heat felt like midday.
By April Innes3 years ago in Fiction
Not So Easy
Looming over, seemingly everything, the bright, brooding moon sat comfortably in the sky. The light grey clouds couldn’t block its oppressive glare on the long ago abandoned rural town... on the forgotten graveyard. A bone chilling silence consumed everything, eerily holding back any noise. Instead you could practically hear the panic, the tension so thick it could be cut with a knife, the deafening lack of any noise that could be registered by the human ear. The sun had long since left behind the town, abandoning it into a dim, starless existence. What could have elapsed into a pleasant setting was now a fearful place riddled with shadows and emptiness...
By Indie Warren3 years ago in Fiction
Their Loss
First It hung loosely around her neck. He wasn’t sure if it was his place to tighten it. They decided it needed to be tightened. They had talked about it. It was uncomfortable. The whole thing was uncomfortable. Her neck had gotten so slender that it looked comically huge draped around it. Like her dad's necktie when she was a toddler playing work.
By Chris Kelly3 years ago in Fiction
Doomsday Diary
It all looked the same at the time in the world. Each day was the same as the previous one and the next one too. The whole world was now a huge technological metallic city, Software-Land Application City. The years when the planet was beautiful and had to remember beautiful things, have already passed. There was no natural environment, it was destroyed, just as there was no oxygen on the planet any more. The earth was an inhospitable technological center of the universe, where nothing could survive without mask and humans were no longer human. Maybe their bodies seemed human, but they weren't human.
By Isavella Ziova3 years ago in Fiction
Dystopia Now
Sarah Williams dug a spoon into the can of beans. She held the spoon over a candle for a few seconds before putting it into her mouth. The beans were only slightly warm, but it was still a treat to have something that wasn’t completely cold. The temperature in her home had hovered around 40 degrees for three days now with no sign that it would change soon.
By Antonella Di Minni3 years ago in Fiction
Short Dystopian Fiction with Heart Shaped Locket – By Susan Sanders
Well the world as we know it finally ended and life goes on as it always does. The cockroach is now king as everyone always suspected it always would be. It crawls peacefully over rubble and the remains of most fleshy things taking what it needs and ignoring pretty much everything else.
By Susan Sanders3 years ago in Fiction
Taegong: I Will Do Anything, But That!
Flo Glitz had insisted that they had a meeting every day before the boys began to practice. Both Gong-gi and Taeyang rolled their eyes at each other wishing that the meeting wasn't at six in the morning. That morning wasn't anything out of the ordinary; Taeyang and Gong-gi had coffee and paracetamol for breakfast.
By Chloe Gilholy3 years ago in Fiction
Girl on Fire
Clothes littered the ground, ripped off hangers or dropped in piles like mounds on a battleground. A shoe, worn out and foreign rested lonely near the doorway, left behind. Abandoned. Shards of glass decorated the floor, strangely beautiful and glimmering in the flickering lights, contrasting harshly with the surrounding messes. Glimmering in light that was all too fluorescent. Indecently so. Shining too brightly when a mask of darkness would have been a much kinder gift.
By Melissa Faith3 years ago in Fiction
The Star to the Left
Bright morning sunlight cut budding rays through the glacial morning air that lit Grizzy’s brown skin, giving a youthful glow to his face that ended at his inky, oiled beard. His black boots crunched the unstable rubble underfoot while trudging through the waste of the northern plates. On one shoulder was his rifle, and tucked secretly in a holster hidden by his dusty, black trench coat was his hand cannon. Grizzy pulled the straps on his backpack tighter around his broad shoulders after stumbling over an unsteady hunk of concrete.
By Brandon McCullough3 years ago in Fiction