“Eat my shorts!”
Calvin Klein* #quote
Went to the card game tournament today with CJ. Much fun was had today. I
hadn't played the Pokemon card game in like 9 years. There we're
people of all sorts of ages. The game has been around for so many
years there were a lot of people there. Now there were age
divisions(They weren't going to have 7 year olds play 20 year olds of
course. Yeah pokemon came out when I was like 5 the game's that old.)
There were parents with their kids. I wonder how many parents in
tournaments help their kids make their pokemon decks instead of
letting them making it on their own. (Just like soapbox derbies!).
Though it's usually pretty obvious if they do help with their decks.
But in this tournament the only people allowed with deck construction
are judges.
Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Story Where Everyone Dies
A few stars explode in a certain way at the same time to create a
spacial anomaly that tears through the universe. This is the set-up
for the sad, sad story where everyone dies. The first “people” to
die will be the aliens on far off planets. But why should be care
about them, they're not really plot relevant are they? Oh, and for
this story to matter to you, the audience, the most, Earth will be
the last planet consumed by the spatial phenomenon.
We'll witness this disaster from the perspective of the little girl
named Elise. She's a cute one alright. Her oak brown skin looked
vibrant. Like the wood color came from a polished antique. Her black
hair was long and combed rigorously straight by the little girl. When
she saw the models on TV she didn't care emulating their skinny
bodies but she loved their hair and wanted hair like theirs. With how
rowdy she played it turned out to be quite the difficult task for
her.
During most days she steadily works away every curl in hair while
watching TV. A sudden news report interrupted her cartoons.
“Massive amounts of radiation is coming from the atmosphere and
hitting the East Coast of The United States and is spreading west. It
is advised that you remain in your home and if possible find some
protection from the radiation in the follow ways:”
The radiation bombardment was the first phase of the universe
covering disaster that killed the aliens that we really didn't care
about earlier besides their function of explaining things. Now tons
of people die because of the radiation. Little Elise didn't radiation
or the horrible way the people were dying and that eventually it
would happen to her. Her mother cooked dinner in the other room and
noticed the news coming on and came in. She knew what radiation was
and had the ability to comprehend all the deaths. She possessed the
capability to wonder if the radiation would spread all the way to
them.
Within an hour the radiation spread across the States. It even
affected the school Elise went to every day. A few birds dropped from
the sky onto the playground. Every day Elise would count the birds,
and if one was missing she assumed it must have been playing with
birds at another playground. Nothing else crossed her mind first at
her age.
And when the radiation reached Elise's home it turned intense. Her
death was so swift it was fortunately painless and her mother didn't
even have to watch. Eventually the radiation killed everyone on the
entire planet and the disaster eventually destroyed the entire
planet, dirt and all. Everyone died as the title promise. Really
though we only cared about Elise. Because she had a name. Maybe the
Mom because of proximity and motherly love. But everyone else was
extras. A story where everyone dies doesn't have to be too bad. Sure
it turned out to be a sweet little girl, but really only one “person”
was killed here in this text because everyone else was nameless. So
it wasn't too sad because everyone else that died didn't matter.
That's how the cookie crumbles extras!
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