Writing Prompt

It‘s been ages since i saw another human being. I only pass the bots every day. The M3D-Bots usually help with overall health issues but currently they look like useless puppets. My favorites are the G4R-Gen1-Bots. They look like gnomes and do the gardening work. Without them no city would look this clean and neat anymore. It‘s been how long since the asteroid crashed into earth? Maybe like a year...

“It’s dark.”

That’s the only thing I could say. The silence around me almost even more deafening than the noise that was there before.

My hoverboard, and crystal that powers it lay lifelessly by my side on the floor. My wrist and side hurting from the 100 foot drop. I’m on the floor but I don’t I have the strength to get up. The only way I survived was the special drop and roll that I’ve practic...

I don’t think we realized how important technology was to our world until it’s gone. All our entertainment came from it. Our information. Our communication. Our light. When it all disappeared and darkness consumed us, so did panic.

People ran to the only source of light left, the sun. And for a few hours, all was still. But then that left us, and the brief anxiety from earlier exploded into someth...

It was sudden.

It was like someone had clicked their fingers.

Like someone had flicked a single switch - a switch that controlled every single angle in time.

At first, I was unaware. I had considered the blinks of the bulb to be a coincidence. I was the only one who believed that the desolate outside was bleak because of a simple power cut.

Oh, how I was so wrong.

...

Only fools turn to violence so quick. . .

It was an important night in downtown ‘Generic Metropolis’ when all hell broke loose… quite literally, since I am recalling this. There was a major sports match, and at the same time the great pop star ‘Vanity’ was putting on a sold out show next door. Across town there was a policeman’s ball AND a local radio promotion bar crawl. As if that was not enou...

Creeping. Cold. Cutthroat.

Desolate. Darkness. Danger.

Alone. Afraid. Alert.

I had just returned home. From where, I have no clue. When all of a sudden a massive bang. An explosion that plunged the world into darkness. The sort of event that was like an end of the world simulation. On the dying radio waves came a message: ‘Stay at home!’

Short. Serious. Simple.

So here I am, laying on my ...

Hilstone General

She wouldn’t have noticed the popping in her ears but just then the lights… died. They didn’t flicker, they didn’t hum, they just turned theirselves off. One minute she was trying to find out about a John Doe they had in the operating room, fresh from a car wreck, and then her computer went black. The nurse next to her hung up her phone and tried picking it up again.

“That’s so w...

He had been chosen to turn the two switches, one off—-one on. The oldest in that sector, old enough to have known the stink of fossil fuels and the poisonous remains of fuel rods. Most couldn’t even remember those things, only the sun and wind and hydrogen push. The Push, that’s what they called those sources for electricity. The Push would be turned off for something completely new.

His fingers ...

Imagine all of us, the whole fucking world, flipping switches, fumbling for flash lights, lighting candles, cussing as we open fuse boxes, ask neighbors if there’s a another black out or Nuclear meltdown. The longer the lights are gone the angrier some are at PGE. “Bastards,” screams old ladies and rednecks. Wives demand to know what their husbands did with the money for the utility bill this ti...

There was a loud, piercing and Earth-shattering boom that echoed furiously around me. Suddenly the lights went out. The TV was silenced. My initial thoughts was that there was a power outage in the neighbourhood. I reached my pocket for my smart phone. I taps the screen but it didn’t respond. I tried resetting it through the side but it didn’t show any signs of life. I mentally painted the layout ...