A New World

it had been some years since the world had unpluggged, and disconnected. leaving behind the ever tightening grip of technology that grasped at the human race. 'they' has decided it, all those in power. They were scared of what the growing digital age was bringing apon us, it's wire fingers wrapping around people in different ways. The shut down has started slowly, taking away the forms of public technology many relied on for Travel. Trains slid to a half on their steel tracks, car engines growing quite as they seemes to fall into sleep, planes took their last flights before the metal birds landed for the last time. servers blinked out of existence, phone loosing service to never regain it again. The last to be taken away was the utilities, faucets ran dry while stove lights blinked away. The word seemed to grind to a halt, the age of digital advancement being locked away behind what seemed to be glass walls, humans unable to break through and reclaime it. it had been years since then, I only a young girl at the time everything was ripped away. Walking through the brush, my pants caught on brambles and bushes pulling free only to be caught again. Stepping from the tree lines my feet connected with the worn down gravel that surrounds the train tracks, the dull steel no longer shining as it once did. slipping away I stepped atop the tracks, the metal feeling sturdy underneath my tearing sneakers, the soft soles almost gone now. A feeling of excitement course through my mind as the thought of water surfaced to the top. Often train tracks led to water, and with the promise of water came the promise of food too. with that thought my stomach let out a cry, the sound filling the forest around me. stifling a laugh my eyes casted up to the setting sun, its once bright colora of yellow bleed into crimson red. a faint whistle caught my attention as the tracks beneth my feet began to shake, pushing off the ground I leap away as a train barreled through the over grown tracks.