The Great Shattering

The First Week

Things got out of hand quickly that night. It's only been about a week since then so it's fresh in my mind. I was rocking the baby back and forth in his bed just thinking about random stuff like I usually do before I started to hear something. A cracking sound. The sound of glass shattering. Followed by 3 people screaming from the other rooms. I was used to the sounds of screams but the baby wasn't as it started to cry against the sound. The cacophony filled my brain so I ran out to figure out what was going on and I found Henry Jenna and Phil on the ground in the fetal position, screaming their lungs out as they clutched their own heads. I tried calling the ambulance but they wouldn't pick up so I checked the news and oh boy did things get out of hand. It was just screams, painful screams that exploded out of the speakers. The only things that weren't screaming were streaming platforms and cable that were rerunning shows but those didn't last long. Fortunately, neither did the screaming, as eventually those 3 did stop and I did get Johnny to stop crying. Any normal person would be freaking out right now but while I'm not calm, I just did what I always do. See things logically. I got them all back into bed and kept an eye on all of them, periodically checking on their vital signs.

It's been stressful, really stressful. Physically stressful. People have died, and a lot of them at that. At least, that's what I can infer from what evidence I have. The most important being the loss of electricity. Despite what I call the great Shattering, the world in itself hasn't taken any damage. In fact it seems that the planet has had a resurgence of life with animals and foliage alike having a huge spike population opposite that of humans. We lost power less than a day after the great Shattering, this most likely means that either people have forgotten to keep the powerplant off of safe mode or they just aren't enough people to keep them functioning. I would like to believe the former, but there is no way that humanity would forget about the most widespread source of electricity. But, there might be a reason to back this hypothesis. Electricity seems to be weaker than it was before. I'm not talking about them having less voltage than before although that does have some truth to it. I'm talking about how basic appliances seem to use much more energy to complete the same jobs. Oddly enough though, natural lightning seems to be much more deadly than that off before and not just lightning; All forms of natural disasters have gotten more powerful. There were times where I thought that the house was going to fall but this house was made specifically for surviving disasters plus it has an underground bunker just in case. To be honest though, Henry made that bunker into a wine cellar. Well, not just wine but all types of alcohol.

This week has been by far the hardest week of my life. Henry, Jenna, and Phil are still out cold and I have to take care of them on top of Johnny. Taking care of a baby is hard enough but taking care of 3 coma patients is surprisingly more difficult than that as I got to do all of the stuff they would normally do on their own such as changing their clothes, giving them a shower, and if I'm lucky dispose of their waste before it gets unloaded into their clothing. As, I can't feed them much of anything without a feeding tube and I wouldn't want to choke them to death with water. They don't have much waste to begin with so that is perfectly manageable but the fact that they can't eat or drink means that they could die if they don't wake up. Stressful. Thankfully Johnny is a year old and does need breastfeeding for survival, and our stock of baby food should last us a few days so I hope at least Jenna will wake up by then. Food for me though is another problem entirely. 1, basically everything in the fridge and freezer had to be thrown out 3 days after the great shattering and 2, because of the loss in air conditioning, non canned items had to be thrown out just yesterday. That's all fine because Jenna's garden which is located in the backyard is thriving but the loss in protein is starting to take a toll on my ability to stay awake for several days at a time to take care of Johnny. That's not even half of it. Radio waves have become obsolete because much like electricity, they aren't strong enough to send complete signals anymore. At the very least, small messages like morse code seems to help with that but since a vast minority of people even tried to learn such a thing, information has become somewhat of a privilege. I do know morse code so I do know what people have been trying to say through the radio channels but none of it will help me in this situation. I finally got Johnny to sleep as I was thinking about these things so I decided to go outside for a bit. I look towards the horizon to see carnage. Absolute carnage.