Surviving the Apocalypse

Born Into a New World

         I blinked, not believing that ninety percent of the world had been wiped out, I mean would you? But it was true and I was witnessing it with my own two gray eyes. Buildings reduced to dust and the sky a red streaked dome over my head. I stared at the ruins that had once been what I called home, tears leaked down my cheeks and sobs racked my body, sending me to my knees. I would never ever cry in public but I knew I was alone with no one to call family, in an empty world littered with the bodies of the innocent. "What had we done to deserve this?!" I wanted screamed up to the sky, up to any greater beings who watched us from above.

    My father, mother and baby brother lay at the bottom of that dust filled pile, I wanted to throw myself at the rubble and dig until my limbs were broken. However much I wanted to, I knew it would be a waste, they were gone. Fresh tears flowed, so I turned away knowing that if I didn't I would never move again.

My name is Carter Ste-, you know what forget my last name I will never need it again. So as I was saying, my name is Carter, Art for short, and I am the last survivor of the human race, that I know of  at least. I'm not a super spy or a supernatural kid like in many stories, I am a normal fourteen year old girl and I was forcibly brought into this. Sound dramatic? Hey, having your whole family lost to an over-sized flaming rock will do that to you! How did I survive the asteroid you may ask? Well, I don't really know actually, I just woke up in the middle of the street covered in ash, and for some unknown reason blood. Okay maybe that sounds suspiciously supernatural, but what can you say, you're probably just a figment of my messed up imagination. Alright enough of the introductions, on to my story....   Wait what introductions, I am not narrating this!