Friday, September 13, 2013

Famous lines starting and ending my story


I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I’m hiding from the world around me. I’ve lost my entire family and I don’t know if anybody else’s is alive outside of my apartment. At least I have my dog, Roofus, with me. I think it was a week ago, I’ve lost track of time, that the world started crashing down. We always learned about the apocalypse, but it didn’t happen the way they said it would. They said the volcanoes would all start to erupt, earthquakes happening everywhere and the oceans taking over continents. What really happened was a disease broke out, nobody knows from where, and one by one people started dying. The twist to this was that once some had died they would come back as zombies. Zombies that hungered for human flesh. Naturally the zombies started killing people, taking the human race down one by one. This brings us back to why I’m sitting in my sink with Roofus all alone and scared to leave. If I had another person with me then might say I’m going crazy, but what’s a girl supposed to do when she’s scared out of her mind what could happen. How will I find more food? Is there anybody else there like me just hiding out? These are the questions I write down. I sit and over think every answer and possibility to these questions. Over thinking is probably the reason why I’m going insane. So I just sit in my sink; it’s the only place I feel completely safe. I can see all windows and doors from this position, so I feel protected. I just sit here and wait for what will happen next. I can feel the tears running down my cheeks. It is a fine cry- loud and long- but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

1 comment:

  1. It seems we all naturally wonder about how we would react in such a cataclysmic situation--such a trend in books and movies these days. You've got the start to a book right here if you were so inclined!

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