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doomsday fiction
Day the After Began
How Shelia and her dog Kenny Survived the Insurrection
At the Gate
For Shelia in the After all but one thing had changed. People still wanted to find and be loved. People still wanted to make more people. Despite all evidence to the contrary, hope still shined bright against the rubble and shards of life left after the insurrection.
She watched a couple trying to swallow each other whole as they meet at the gate. Clear they had been separated for a while and just now found each other again.
The Before
Near half the people in the land had totally lost their minds. Even some of Shelia’s kin were involved, close kin not the kissin’ cousin type.
She’d asked in The Before “Why? Why you follow this fool who cares nothing about you?”
Shelia couldn’t figure out just how this all happened. What was so wrong in their lives that they would worship a complete waste of DNA?
That was Shelia’s most hurtful insult. She had a reverence for the miracle of the triple helix. The variety of life it could produce, the mystery of it. DNA was her jam.