3125years

 “There are too many of them. Those men and women out there will be massacred.” she explained to her husband vehemently. “Do you truly think we have the manpower to destroy all those.. Things? We’ve been fighting this for twenty years. Our children have joined this army you hold so dearly. Would you have them die killing that which is already dead?” There was a silence. Not a dead silence, but a lively one, full of anger, hurt, and fear. Of course not, he thought, I am a father. I created this army, this stronghold to protect my children, not to have them die in battle protecting me. “And it’s not l

I used to be fine not seeing her smile. I used to be fine not knowing her entirely. Up until a few months ago we barely acknowledged each other, despite seeing one another every day. But something has changed. In me. Seeing her now affects me in strange ways. Ways no-one else has before. I don't think of her like I think of the other girls. I just can't. But I've noticed something in her change lately. The way she smiles at me. The way she touches me. The way she talks to me. We tease each other like third-graders. She looks into my eyes when we dance. We've become closer as these months have gone by, and now she means more to me than I thoug

   There was a thump far above us. Not in the sky. In what was beyond it. Nor was it a thump we could hear. It was one we saw. There was a light brighter than our sun had ever been bathing the city and then just as suddenly as it had happened, it was gone. Not just the brightness, but all of the light. We looked up and we couldn’t find it; our sun had disappeared. It was cold. It was dark. In this darkness the shockwave came. An explosion of plasma smacked into our magnetic sheath, illuminating our world one last time. When it hit, buildings trembled, all electricity was gone; that was when we knew our time had come. The buildings conti