Short Story
This Is Not a Drill. Runner-Up in Nothing But Voices Challenge.
Attention valued Mermaid Cruise Line passengers. Thank you all for returning to your staterooms as requested while we address some minor inconveniences. In a moment, we will be magnetically locking all staterooms and turning off all power except for emergency lights. If you are in an external room, please open the porthole ventilation above your windows. If you are in the center of the ship, we will be activating the manual ventilation ports between staterooms.
By Penny Fuller8 months ago in Fiction
Survivor’s Guilt. Content Warning.
“What was it actually like Before?” “Before what?” “You know, Mom. Just Before. When we were hiding under that bridge and you held me close and told me not to make a peep. I was listening to those people walking by above us. Other than you and Dad, I'd never been close enough to another person to actually hear their words and that one man’s voice was so loud. I heard him say to someone else in their group, something about how what they were doing would have been unthinkable Before. What did he mean, unthinkable? What were they doing? And whatever it was, why wouldn’t they have done that Before?”
By Sam Spinelli8 months ago in Fiction
