“You know they thought it was a god, once? Used to pray to it for good luck and everything,” the speaker was a pinprick of light. A second pinprick of light floated next to it. Their brilliant, unwavering points of light stood out amidst the darkened wasteland around them. “Really?[…]
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When the World Ended
We had retreated into the bowels of the same Earth whose landscape we had consumed, burnt and destroyed. The surface of the planet was no longer habitable, but we survived buried deep underground in concrete, neon-lit tunnels. These man-made tunnels stretched for miles with cold walls and a heavily guarded[…]
Read moreWhile Spiral Feeds Looped…
Everyone forgets that at the start they were going to save us. Everyone forgets that in the beginning they were loved. The Earth was dying. The planet had been gutted by generations of careless, greedy men and someone had to save us. They saved us. Well, they did at first.[…]
Read moreLast Life of Leaves
In the beginning, swirling in the base primordial soup on a barren planet, chaotic elements combined and life appeared. First drifting, then swimming and then crawling from the seas, life began to slither, then walk and then fly. Some took root while others took flight and remaining took shade. Finally,[…]
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