Tag: dystopian
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Reclamation

The last thing Donovan remembered was the calm voice of the AI system reading off his vitals and then suddenly a ringing in his ears as the pressure dropped and a blinding light shone in his face. Muffled voices shouted commands as rough hands grabbed him by the shoulders and hauled him onto shaking legs…
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Eight Years Later

I was a child when the bombs fell, great flashes of light on the horizons that I watched through the handheld screen of a tablet. I remember the cake that my mother had brought home sitting on the counter with a plastic case over it so I couldn’t get my fingers into the colored icing.…