Stories tagged “post-apocalypse”
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Miss Pestilence
Miss Pestilence knew how to overcome adversity. Her last name was ‘Pestilence’ after all. She’d heard every Four Horseman joke you’d care to dream up and always received them with a gentle laugh that made you feel a born comedia...
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Pilgrimage
A thousand years ago, humans abandoned this city. Before they left they constructed the enormous cube shaped building that you know sits at the heart of the city, where all the roads come together. That building, as you are also aware, is a supercomput...
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Until The End of the World
Her father had always said that any boy she dated should at least own a car. He had never mentioned how useful a car was for getting away from radioactive mutant cannibals.
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Misnomer
Post-apocalypse? Hardly. An apocalypse, by definition, cannot have a “post.” I should know. I had a PhD before the bombs fell. Nothing survives an apocalypse, and yet the wasteland is teeming with mutants, scavengers, and raiders. Sure, it ...
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Sojourners
We broke bread with the wayfarers behind the leeward wall of a crumbled building that had long ago forgotten what it was supposed to be. Only the three of us now — Tan, Maggie, and me. The rest had fallen in ones, twos, and threes along the way. ...
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North
“Damn those sailors!” The vizier cursed as a gust flapped at him, still angry that the crew refused to come any closer, forcing them to take the creaky airship. “May the djinns take ’em!” “Careful with your wish,R...
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Pandapocalypse
The panda walks. Step by step, through this post-apocalyptic world. He is searching for the food that was once given to him hourly, for the the water that was available daily, and the comfort that was there all around the clock. He wont find it. And he...