Still

Beneath a grey sky filled with ash, humanity survives inside massive white warehouses stretching endlessly across a dead world. Life is quiet, stiff, and painfully routine. People wear identical pale clothing, speak only when necessary, and move through their days like machines. Emotion, curiosity, and individuality have long faded into something distant and unfamiliar.

Solita lives alone among millions of others, carrying out endless tasks in a world untouched by warmth or color. Days blur together. Memories slip away. Nothing changes.

Until something small does.

After an ordinary assignment beyond the warehouse walls, Solita returns with the unsettling feeling that the world may not be as empty as everyone believes. And once the thought appears, it refuses to leave.

Story by A.L. Sherwin