A Collection Of Other Adventures

The Ray Of Hope, A Wooden Coaster Tale

A Collection Of Other Adventures

Story 1: The Ray Of Hope, A Wooden Coaster Tale

Date: August 20th, 2016

Intro: Well well. Welcome to the first short story that is part of this collection of adventures! This is a rewrite of the first ever fictional piece of writing I ever made as far as I'm aware. To reflect that, I put the date of the story as August 20th, 2016. That's right around the time it was first written as an assignment in 7th grade language arts class. This is going to be good when I'm finished with it! The short story after this will be about the Molter creatures inhabiting part of Kohnanix, a world of walking and talking animals called furries. Now sit, lay back, or whatever as you read this!

This world is a dark place, a very dark place. Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, world peace was still a far off dream. On September 11th, 2001, the Twin Towers were hit by hijacked airplanes as was the Pentagon building. Another hijacked plane was diverted to a field instead of hitting the Capitol building. Yugoslavia fell into disunion and broke up in the 90s. Under the direction of the president of the US at the time, the War On Terror began. It did much more harm than good. In 2008, the federal minimum wage increased for the last time. In the world a certain person knew, movements such as MAGA and The Proud Boys showed up before that year and Trump was elected instead of Obama. The genocide of marginalized people intensified and at some point, World War 3 happened. A leftist revolution began in the US, leading to it losing the war. But it was far from the only country as that war went nuclear. The world's worst nightmares came to pass. Not just more genocide but worldwide devastation. The damage was too much for most countries and soon, the United States of America became the first country to collapse, most of its population dead from its own heinous acts and the nukes.

What nobody realized was that all these problems caused by imperialism and greed were partly due to number cards that came to the universe after The Shadow was defeated and split up. Supplies dwindled for everyone except the rich. As the rich sat on and watched as the world crumbled around their mansions, they continued to earn from the suffering of others like flesh eating parasites. Hope barely remains, most entertainment venues including amusement parks were destroyed or abandoned. It turns out Six Flags New Orleans was just one of the first major parks they would lose in the 2000s. Hurricane Katrina was now a distant memory, New Orleans became a ghost town reclaimed by the swamp. But still, the biggest theme parks survived. Kings Island, Europa Park, Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Universal Studios. Legoland, Alton Towers to name a few. However, only one coaster has been built since WW3 even with Cedar Point's owner Cedar Fair managing the former Paramount Parks like Carowinds, Kings Island, and Kings Dominion really well. The bankrupt Six Flags in a bid to stay alive allowed Cedar Fair to take over its assets, this was now a world where the economy didn't matter. The Great Recession crippled things greatly before the nukes even got to start to destroy lives. The leftist revolution liberated the remaining marginalized people who banded together and managed to take over companies like Cedar Fair and Target. The controversy that was stirring about SeaWorld and the Swine Flu were no longer a concern to anybody.

The Democratic and Republican parties lost so many people they were no longer formidable oppressors of the marginalized. And then there was the closed Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. It's downfall started with an incident where the legs of a teenage girl went through something gruesome on the Superman: Tower Of Power drop tower ride at the park manufactured by Intamin. The now collectively owned Cedar Fair sent some workers from Kings Island in Mason, Ohio to Kentucky Kingdom. The Anarchists, Black Americans, Socialists, Queers, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Greens, women, and so on who took over Cedar Fair had a plan that you'd think the rich would be the first to devise and try. They were going to try something ambitious and crazy. In Cincinnati, the Gravity Group, a manufacturer of wooden coasters known for building The Voyage at Holiday World also became collectively owned and were given the plans by Cedar Fair. The coppers in their uniforms tried to stop all of this even though there wasn't much social stratification left for them to uphold by any means necessary. For instance, Hollywood was nearly wiped completely off the map. This didn't deter Cedar Fair or The Gravity Group. Instead, they got as many wooden coaster experts, builders, and engineers as they could to build a really long but compact roller coaster inside of Kentucky Kingdom.