What Now?

Prologue

"What is life if not a routine that we follow from day to day with occasional breaks. Wake up, eat, work, eat, work, go on a walk, eat, then sleep."

That is what we thought life was. In fact, that is all that life was for a few months. Everyone was stuck at home unless they were deemed essential workers. That is when they were allowed to go places. The other instance when people were permitted outside was when they were going to grab groceries from the store then head directly home. Arrests were not that common, rather law enforcement gave out citations when not at home. The world seemed to start slowing down, almost to a standstill.

That was until what the survivors called "The Reckoning." Never has humanity seen more than 99 percent of itself die in less than a day. The death toll rose so dramatically in the first hour that there was no time to react. And those that did die, did not show any signs of any illness the moment prior. It is as if the angel of death just decided to see what is the most embarrassing positions it could have people die in. Just imagine watching the television and seeing the reporter one moment talking about the weather, to the next moment where the reporter was dead on the ground with no pulse.

We thought that what we were facing was just a regular virus; one that we could beat. We were sadly mistaken. There has never been a virus that killed that many people on the same day. By sunset that day, the majority of humans around the world were dead. The ones that survived, as if as a cruel joke, were left to figure out what just happened and ask themselves, "What Now?"