Few Remain, Many Lost

Chapter 3: The flashback

It was about noon in Seattle, I was in Pike place market looking at some sockeye salmon, only a dollar sixty-six a pound, “Cheap” I thought. After ordering 3 pounds, they threw the fish, it was my favorite part of it all. After I got back into my little Honda civic, I drove out to cle elum to see my parents and little brother. I was welcome with the sweet smell of home, my eleven year old brother Benny came rushing out and gave me a big hug.

 “Wow, next time you hug me like that, I might pop” I told him

“Maybe you should come over more often than”

“You want salmon or not?” I threatened; just them our mom came out with a gleaming smile on her face, then dad came out and smiled.

Before anything else could happen, we heard it, it was a gigantic boom and a blinding light hit us less than a second after we heard the boom. We all ran to the TV to see what was going on, there was an EA on. “Emergency alert” I thought

“This is your United States Government with a very important message. Six major cities have been impacted with one nuclear warhead each. New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, Cape Canaveral. Stay away from these populated areas, repeat, stay away from impact zones. Stay inside your house at all times. Do not-“Is all the TV could say before it cut out. What happened after that was so fast, I can barely remember.

First, a loud-high pitch noise. Second, a blinding light that left me disoriented. Third, the house exploded, everything just suddenly blew up, the TV, lights, fridge, windows, and benny.

I woke up under some rubble, heavy rubble. After about then minutes of getting out, I looked over in the general direction of Seattle, I saw the cloud of an atomic bomb, and I knew all that shit that was there less than ten hours ago is now gone. Just, gone.