Stories tagged “survivor”
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Document Everything
He’d walked for days, heading south, trying to stay ahead of the weather. Becoming an expert at ducking zombies was easy, I guess those video games weren’t such a waste of time, he let a small laugh escape. Checking the building with his fa...
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Jonnie Survivor
Jonnie doesn’t like that freaked out guy, the one complaining about survivin’. He outta swallow a bullet and forget it. That guy don’t know shit ‘bout survivin’. Freak Guy walks by grabbing them fruit bars like they were f...
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Survivor's Guilt
Anna closed her eyes and again imagined her step father standing above her 24 years ago, thin lips and thinner hair, asking her about her day. Anna’s 1868th day on earth had been unremarkable to that point, and might have remained so had her moth...
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The Building
We brought them to this office building, one of the few in the area left relativity unscathed. The building was new, new enough to lack furniture, carpet, even walls. It also lacked power. This was a blessing, it meant no lights to shine out, no lights...
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Ruins of Automatopia
Our needs were met by design; by total automation of production. Automatons mine, refine, make, and cultivate. We toiled only toward extinction. And automated are the means to replace expired producers, even now. Some models make automatons and some, b...
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False Friend
Julie was very convincing. She had of course done it herself. Six months on and she was still hounding me. ‘Why are you doing this to yourself? Get on with it or I will not help anymore.’ No more procrastination. I knew I would do it. I ...
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The Man Behind The Bowling Ball
“Do you think he bought it?” Cory asked, rubbing his bald head. “Of course Joe bought it,” Skyler said. If Cory was a bowling ball, Skyler was a Nerf mini-football, who believed the call center was a game of Survivor. “I s...
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There is a God...and I can prove it! - Part 1
A childʼs smile, then hearing that child laugh. The wheat fields of the Canadian Prairies. The majestic mountains of Kilimanjaro Even that name sounds cool! The love between two lovers. John Williams. Star Wars, Superman, Jaws, Indiana Jones, J...
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Hurricane Ivan - Aftermath
The wind and rain were gone. The skies were as blue as the eyes of a Swedish Stewardess and were dotted with those puffy clouds you look for shapes in. A breeze whipped the grass around and rustled the limbs of of the trees still standing – few a...
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Hope
The sound of the waves silently woke Garret from a terrible nights sleep. His pillow a rock, his blanket a bunch of palm leaves. Today was day 46. Forty-six days since Garret’s one seater plane went down 10 miles off the coast of what is now Garr...
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Silent City
I wandered pointlessly through the empty streets, shocked by just how deathly quiet everything was. After The Plague had been released in the War, nearly everybody on the whole planet died. In fact I have yet to meet another survivor. The empty buildin...
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Dust and Darkness
The darkness of dusk hid my silent run to the back door. With shaking hands I pulled out the keyring and selected the last intact key, carefully ignoring the scratch marks and scorches on the others. The lock clicked, felt more than heard, and I felt t...
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Prospekt
I climb free and rise, slowly, my bones hurting, every muscle screaming, my skin torn and dusty. The sky is grey. I stagger away, feeling nothing at all. Around me the dead are walking. Their eyes are hollow and aching. Mine are probably the same. Trud...