Things Fall Apart [SIREN]

[Rayne Campbell]

THINGS FALL APART

For me, much like the rest of the world I presume, it began as another day. Clear skies, calm winds, a good day to be sailing. Recently I've learned more about the sea than I ever did even growing up next to it. At any rate, I was on a ship when it happened. We lost our navigation systems first, and then we couldn't reach anyone. The comms were down. Finally we stalled, and as our crew rushed about getting the ship back in order we saw the nation go straight to hell.

I won't say where we were on the East Coast, but from where we stopped and sat like a sitting duck in the ocean, we saw plumes of smoke appear all over the western horizon, heard things crashing and breaking in the distance. I swear I even heard screams on the wind. Even though I was relatively safe, I felt terrified, and I can only imagine what it was like to be there on the mainland as life fell to pieces. I didn't know whether my parents are safe, or my friends, or all the people I once knew. As I write this, I've been able to reach most of them, and they are fine, a little shaken up but unharmed.

The first night after it all, the night of the fifth, there was a spectacular aurora in the sky. I find it a bit ironic yet symbolic.

What are your October 5th stories?

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[Sophie Nyström]

I was making breakfast for my sister when it began. The power to the mixer went out as I was preparing the batter for chocolate chip pancakes. For a moment I thought that I had done something wrong again, as me and kitchen appliances don't exactly get along. (shut up Sayeva) Yet as I looked around the house, all electronic equipment had gone out temporarily. However, the power was restored nearly a minute later and my sister assured me that these sort of things happen all the time here.

Yet as we went through our day, reports began filtering in through the radio of the cataclysm that had occurred. It is strange, to know that all around you is crumbling like a moist cookie, and yet you went unscathed. I have just now began to care about the world again and to have it go through this sort of massive hemorrhage, it's disconcerting. Time has shown though, that was once whole and is now broken can be made anew, if given time and effort. Whether such luxuries are afforded in this day, in this circumstances, it is unknown. I hope for humanity's sake it is, but the realist in my says prepare for the most turbulent and violent era that the world has ever seen. May the Gods watch over those that deserve protection.

~LivingInTime

[Sayeva Reardon]

At 10:24 AM, saymynamesaymyname wrote:

You were cooking? Why?!?!

Ladies and gentlemen, we now know what caused the power issues.