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Anna's Oasis
Anna's Oasis Part I - Travelling West IThe dunes stretched out onward and forever. Anna was coming from the Eastern Sea, leaving behind the destruction of her village and the horrors she'd faced there. She was the only survivor. Now, she was a fugitive. A runaway. Desperate to escape, she fled into the only place left to go: the great desert of Harken.IIJudging by how intensely the sun was beating down on her, Anna guessed it must have been high noon. But time didn't work like that anymore. No, time was thinning, slowing down (but in some places speeding up). You couldn't be too sure of anythi...
Luddite
A LUDDITE IN THE MODERN AGEI’m not REALLY a luddite. (A word coined in the 19th century when people disdained any new technology). I don’t dislike new technology, I just have a hard time comprehending it. When I wake up and find Ricky. my grandson, playing ping-pong with my father, when neither of them have a ping-pong table and they’re 3000 miles away from each other, it just freaks me out.I’ve plumbed hundreds of miles of pipe in my life and carpentered a forest of wood on many dozens of decks, but wires, plugs anwww.onedoor.ccd sockets are anathema to me. And yet Ricky seems to figure it all out within ...
Don't Go Outside
We are still not allowed to leave the house. They tell us that the war is over. That we won against the bloodthirsty goons that had landed on this earth years ago. Sending us to war against them for over 20 years. The Earth becoming nothing but a barren wasteland and battlegrounds. How some of us survived, I don’t know. Yet, we still can’t leave. They still think it’s too dangerous for us to go outside. We get rations weekly from the military. The only people allowed to go outside. The one my father left to go serve and has yet to come back. That was 16 years ago. I barely remember him, I was...
An Oasis in the Wastelands
As we walked over to the trap, I saw we had caught something by how low the branch framework sat in the water. “Looks like I won’t have to eat you today ready meal.”Cyril looked up at me like he understood, but I may have been imagining that.When I lifted the trap out of the water there were fish on all four lines. The river was full of fish and was why we’d stayed here so long. We should have moved on from our oasis by now, but it felt good to have something between my skin and bone for the first time in months. We needed to soon, but not until I’d replenished our food stock. The smoker I’d b...