Small Stories

Demise by Lostattache

I used to be so excited to wake up in the morning and meet up. Now after the great earthquake, it seems the world and everyone in it, is just so angry. About a year ago a large earthquake shattered the world-destroying everything from mountains to people's lives. Nothing seems the same, well except for the daily routine of life. People all doing the same things ... But are always angry, never trying to get back to the way it was or even trying to make it new. With all the fissures in the ground are people being affected by fumes from deep in the earth? Maybe they just don't wanna remember any of it, so when they remember what they lost they get angry because there is no one else to blame. Either way ... This is the reason I started my travels to find the solution to so much hatred. The first place I headed was to our largest city, thought to myself, with all those people there... Love has to be real for some! Not just anger, malice, spite, and acceptance of the new "socially acceptable norm". I was wrong. This was the norm. It is how people chose to live, they didn't want to push through fear to get to love. They would rather take the easiest path of least resistance. One day while in a small town, talking with a singular soul .. it started to happen. This person decided that, like me, hate was not frightening or something to be embraced. It felt as if the world was moving again, life had reason! Well I was kinda right ... It was another earthquake and this time a large crevasse opens up directly under us ... We fell to our demise.