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Write a post-apocalyptic romance.

Posted in Dystopian on Nov 1, 2022

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Disgustingly romantic!

Submitted to Contest #60

She sleeps exactly the way she is named-‘Angel’. Under the twinkling blanket at this barren open land with only fire in the name of protection and a tiny attempt to keep the uninvited away. I didn’t realize till this very moment of emptiness that it has been almost ten years since the hell rained down from sky in the form of a single entity which they called ‘the one’ that triggered a chain of events causing mass destruction. Floods, droughts, plagues- name it and it had already happened. People killing people in the name of survival and the...

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The Child Bearer

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The year was 2101. The earth survived much in the way of disasters. Fires spread over the west coast and scientists finally innoculated not just the Coronavirus but another virus of similar behavior.On top of disease, riots based on every social distortion came to pass. A caste system The Ruler enacted recruited poor young women like me to be gestational carriers for the rich. We were expendable. I remember my capture well. Kira, my best friend, and I sat in a coffee shop drinking Americanos. Two soldiers entered. One made eye contact with m...

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The Lady at the Post Office

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It has to be, what, two o’clock in the morning. Hard to know for sure with these goddamned lights on. Two rows of fluorescent bulbs all the way across the ceiling. One edge right to the opposite edge. The light could be part of it. Part of their plan. Keep me awake, get me talking. Easier to squeeze information out of me that way. If it's two o'clock in the morning, then by now they’re all dead.The jackboots who put me in here want access to The Keyhole. They might even think they can get to The Locksmith himself. Good luck with that. He’s f...

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Bren's plague

Submitted to Contest #60

The epidemic came to the attention of the media on December 5, 2015 and by then it was too late. They called it the Bren’s plague. It was not shocking the way the news spread throughout the nation but it was horrifying the way the plague spread. It was said to have been caused by bacterial infected fleas. We were in the heat of summer and so fleas were in abundance everywhere which increased the risks of contracting this plague. The symptoms were fever, headache, vomiting, weakness and swellings in the areas closer to where the bacteria occu...

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L'amour Est Altruist

Submitted to Contest #60

People say when you die, all you see are the glimpses of your misdeeds. But what if everyone dies, but you. It sounds horrific, right? Here I am today, all alone, stuck in the future. I have no clue what year or day it is. Last I remember, it was November 21, 2020. There is no sign of living here, except me. I’ve lost my power, and I have no idea how am I going to survive. Oh god! What have I done? Was all of this just because of me? Am I the reason for this awful plight? I NEED ANSWERS!!! Ugg. I need to search for some water else I am going...

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Chess Enthusiasts at the End of The World

Submitted to Contest #60

He sacrificed too many pieces, and so she always won. They played outside, on the table covered in bird crap. They would spend half an hour trying to wipe it off, and then give up. She would curse the name of the bird god and sit down to play with a pout. Winning restored her mood.  He buzzed his lips and tapped his fingers against the metal. He’d tease at least four moves before making up his mind. Sometimes he’d stare at her with puppy eyes and she’d just giggle. Perhaps it was because of the birds screeching, or the heat of the sun ...

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Awakenings

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Shania McPherson awoke from her 300-year slumber. She’d been one of the lucky ones. One of 2,000 Americans selected for cryopreservation in a bunker deep, deep beneath the Earth’s surface in a governmental nuclear fallout facility when humanity realized they couldn’t stop the massive meteor headed straight for Earth. All the experts predicted the near total annihilation of every living thing on the planet’s surface.It took her awhile to remember how to open her cryopod. She stood, stretched, and looked around. She saw a few other open pods, ...

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Run That By Me Again

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She was outside the hull again. Nolan sighed as he had been working on the life support modules. The garden was flourishing, so at least oxygen wasn't going to be a problem. But heat and continued electrical supply was questionable.He put down his tools in a toolbox nearby and took of his gloves. He brought his wrist up and contacted Mary through his smart watch."Dancing again are you? You know how dangerous that is... Marianne.""I'll be fine Noley.""I'm too old for nicknames Marianne."Picking up his pace, he jogged through the ship towards ...

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The Beauty of Bravery

Submitted to Contest #60

After the apocalypse, nothing was the same. Aliens had discovered Earth, and they tried to destroy us, but we fought back hard enough to defeat them. Sadly, some lives were lost, but our planet won in the end. After this apocalypse, Earth would never be the same again.My best friend, Liv, is the strongest person I know. She fought as hard as she could during the apocalypse, saving so many lives. She is also extremely beautiful. God, she’s gorgeous. I woke up this morning on Liv’s couch. I slept at her house last night because both of ou...

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Mr. Unknown

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What is love? Some say, “love is infinite”…whereas for some “love is life,etc”… Everyone have different opinion about love. But what is love exactly, which is still unknown to all of us. Based on the type of people, their thinking, circumstances, the definition of love is concluded by all of them. In short, everyone has got their own definition for love. Some often say, “mine was true love”….& wind up in sorrow. While some do just burst into laughing out, “no yaar, it was just an infatuation”…& go on enjoying in airs flirting for res...

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Twenty seconds

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Noah wakes to the sound of the siren. No one goes to the Minero suburb anymore. But just in case some teenagers try to show-off their running skills after sniffing the last fumes of a paint can, it will at least give them a head-start. The relics of an old diamond mine is the last surviving evidence of a forgotten underground mining world. The last time it was active, was in 2085, ten years before the big explosion. Now it still spews angry gases from the holes prior civilizations used to dig. It is out of those holes hot lava now flows. The...

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Zombie Ahoy.

Submitted to Contest #60

Zombie Ahoy.He could feel the bulky end of the silencer pressed into his kidney area as he walked down the aisle. ‘They missed the A out of the ‘best man’s’ name,’ he thought. He had no doubt that Giovani accompanying him would not hesitate to shoot in spite of the potential number of witnesses present. They wouldn’t see a thing, Lorenzo would see to that.It wasn’t that his bride-to-be wasn’t beautiful, she was gorgeous, but she came with ‘fish-hooks’ as well as access to millions, maybe even billions. But, what price freedom? Aurora, his in...

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Drowning

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Kaz and Gabriel are special. Not really, truly, special, in the grand scheme of things, the way some people are so important. No, they aren’t important. They are, however, special. They are unique, because despite everything, they are still Kaz and Gabriel. Nobody can stop them. They are sitting on the roof of Gabe’s building, the high metal skyscraper his parents had raised him in, before they were all gone. The water, murky and torrential and harsh, roils below them, turbid and almost attractive, trying to lure them into the drowning de...

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A Little Less Lonely

Submitted to Contest #60

Alice hadn’t seen her for some time, not since before the global catastrophe that took everyone she loved and knew away from her. A slew of mishappenings had taken the world by storm. It all started with a political uprising that led to the destruction of first her country and that eventually seeped out into the rest of the globe. A global disaster that quickly overwhelmed the human population. She awoke to find one day that the violence had reached her province. A typically peaceful place in Canada filled with beautiful mountains and kind p...

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Houston,, We Have a Problem

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“Houston, we have a problem.” Grace stared at the monitor as Ricardo tried to communicate with NASA. “Houston?” Anyone?” “How does he do that?” Grace wondered. “How does he keep calm in the face of disaster?” Her voice rose half an octave and cracked a little when she gave him an update. “Houston has a bigger problem, Ricardo.” Three or four mushroom clouds blended together where Houston used to be as they passed over in the ISS. There were more ominous clouds sprouting up all over the hemisphere, just as there had been in on the other s...

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