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[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | 'Hey Mac. We gotta talk.'
'We HAVE talked. We've had five meetings, two with state, three with the governor on the line.'
'No, we need to talk. Just us.'
'...what.'
'It's about the kid. The child.'
'That idiot compromised the entire 911 system in Henswick County, made us look like dumbasses, and cost us over 23 mi... | I take in a dissatisfied gulp of air as I swivel my seat around, landline in hand, towards the looming sky just outside my translucent windows.
This is it.
I first feel the rumble. It is far-off but mighty and it echoes through the ground. Goosebumps travel down my arms. I jump out of my seat and I hear the landline... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | I set down the phone in disbelief. I felt as though my expression was blank, but from what I could tell through my parents' expressions, I wasn't as good of a poker player as I thought. The room was still silent as they waited for my explanation despite that. I couldn't look at them. My eyes glanced to a downward left ... | I take in a dissatisfied gulp of air as I swivel my seat around, landline in hand, towards the looming sky just outside my translucent windows.
This is it.
I first feel the rumble. It is far-off but mighty and it echoes through the ground. Goosebumps travel down my arms. I jump out of my seat and I hear the landline... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."
The shadowy figure clicked the receiver quiet as he stood over the lifeless body, still warm. A pool of scarlet blood slowly expanded outwards and filled the cracks of the dingy hardwood. He frantical... | I take in a dissatisfied gulp of air as I swivel my seat around, landline in hand, towards the looming sky just outside my translucent windows.
This is it.
I first feel the rumble. It is far-off but mighty and it echoes through the ground. Goosebumps travel down my arms. I jump out of my seat and I hear the landline... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | Nine one one, three simple numbers which could have greatly helped you out in a pinch. Not anymore, all organized civility is gone. Boundaries are fading with each passing day, what does it even mean to be human, when there is no humanity in people left? Once I was an ordinary person leading an ordinary life. No mor... | I take in a dissatisfied gulp of air as I swivel my seat around, landline in hand, towards the looming sky just outside my translucent windows.
This is it.
I first feel the rumble. It is far-off but mighty and it echoes through the ground. Goosebumps travel down my arms. I jump out of my seat and I hear the landline... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sound was coming from somewhere inside the ruined building. Or at least, my helmet’s sensoria we’re picking up a sonic disturbance, of possible electromagnetic origin, emanating from inside the merry pile of rubble. I signalled my team and they piled up behind me, as we slowly made our way towards the derelict stru... | I take in a dissatisfied gulp of air as I swivel my seat around, landline in hand, towards the looming sky just outside my translucent windows.
This is it.
I first feel the rumble. It is far-off but mighty and it echoes through the ground. Goosebumps travel down my arms. I jump out of my seat and I hear the landline... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | ...I hung up, pleased with the knowledge that at least some of the nearby 6G cell tower infrastructure had been salvaged and restored. I pocketed the rest of the SIM cards, and made my way back through the shattered storefront, picking my way between looted display cases advertising "new" smartphone models, each over a... | I take in a dissatisfied gulp of air as I swivel my seat around, landline in hand, towards the looming sky just outside my translucent windows.
This is it.
I first feel the rumble. It is far-off but mighty and it echoes through the ground. Goosebumps travel down my arms. I jump out of my seat and I hear the landline... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | I take in a dissatisfied gulp of air as I swivel my seat around, landline in hand, towards the looming sky just outside my translucent windows.
This is it.
I first feel the rumble. It is far-off but mighty and it echoes through the ground. Goosebumps travel down my arms. I jump out of my seat and I hear the landline... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | I take in a dissatisfied gulp of air as I swivel my seat around, landline in hand, towards the looming sky just outside my translucent windows.
This is it.
I first feel the rumble. It is far-off but mighty and it echoes through the ground. Goosebumps travel down my arms. I jump out of my seat and I hear the landline... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | He listened to that voice, that ancient, nameless voice saying the same sentence over and over again. He listened to the crackle of the line mimicked perfectly on the device pressed against his ear and heard the voice again repeat the words.
"Sounds almost mechanical" he commented.
"I think she knew what it meant t... | I take in a dissatisfied gulp of air as I swivel my seat around, landline in hand, towards the looming sky just outside my translucent windows.
This is it.
I first feel the rumble. It is far-off but mighty and it echoes through the ground. Goosebumps travel down my arms. I jump out of my seat and I hear the landline... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | *"You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."*
The sticky, grimy phone bleats out the same message, over and over, in the hand of a woman. Well, at least I think it's a woman. The hand is no longer attached to an arm, but the fingers look slim and ther... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The day started out like any other, came from the central office to head to Morris High to do some PM work on their pool pumps. Morris High was weird, the school was 100 years old, but somehow they managed to bring in an olympic swimming pool. Of course, school administration slacked on turning in a work order for th... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | No help was sent, no masks, nothing. I remember when they closed down the city threw away key, shut down the emergency line and called it 'Quarantine'. Hospitals were already overflowing, the people donated beds and the usually empty corridors were filled with them.
We barely saved our selves and it wasn't just the ne... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | // First post, would love some feedback! //
I still couldn't shake the feeling that this was too surreal. I must be dreaming. We always knew that maybe, just maybe they were out there, but I didn't see it going down like this.
Just last week I was chilling on my buddy Phil's sofa, smoking bowls and talking about sp... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | 'Hey Mac. We gotta talk.'
'We HAVE talked. We've had five meetings, two with state, three with the governor on the line.'
'No, we need to talk. Just us.'
'...what.'
'It's about the kid. The child.'
'That idiot compromised the entire 911 system in Henswick County, made us look like dumbasses, and cost us over 23 mi... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | I set down the phone in disbelief. I felt as though my expression was blank, but from what I could tell through my parents' expressions, I wasn't as good of a poker player as I thought. The room was still silent as they waited for my explanation despite that. I couldn't look at them. My eyes glanced to a downward left ... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."
The shadowy figure clicked the receiver quiet as he stood over the lifeless body, still warm. A pool of scarlet blood slowly expanded outwards and filled the cracks of the dingy hardwood. He frantical... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sound was coming from somewhere inside the ruined building. Or at least, my helmet’s sensoria we’re picking up a sonic disturbance, of possible electromagnetic origin, emanating from inside the merry pile of rubble. I signalled my team and they piled up behind me, as we slowly made our way towards the derelict stru... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | ...I hung up, pleased with the knowledge that at least some of the nearby 6G cell tower infrastructure had been salvaged and restored. I pocketed the rest of the SIM cards, and made my way back through the shattered storefront, picking my way between looted display cases advertising "new" smartphone models, each over a... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | “No ones coming”
“I can still hear them out there! Fighting for us!”
“They’re not fighting for us they’re *dying* for us”
My neighbor, despite my protests, continued to call 911. I assured her several times that no one was in fact coming. I could still here the cracks of rifles and the booms of main guns as the nati... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | *"You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."*
The sticky, grimy phone bleats out the same message, over and over, in the hand of a woman. Well, at least I think it's a woman. The hand is no longer attached to an arm, but the fingers look slim and ther... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The day started out like any other, came from the central office to head to Morris High to do some PM work on their pool pumps. Morris High was weird, the school was 100 years old, but somehow they managed to bring in an olympic swimming pool. Of course, school administration slacked on turning in a work order for th... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | No help was sent, no masks, nothing. I remember when they closed down the city threw away key, shut down the emergency line and called it 'Quarantine'. Hospitals were already overflowing, the people donated beds and the usually empty corridors were filled with them.
We barely saved our selves and it wasn't just the ne... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | // First post, would love some feedback! //
I still couldn't shake the feeling that this was too surreal. I must be dreaming. We always knew that maybe, just maybe they were out there, but I didn't see it going down like this.
Just last week I was chilling on my buddy Phil's sofa, smoking bowls and talking about sp... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | 'Hey Mac. We gotta talk.'
'We HAVE talked. We've had five meetings, two with state, three with the governor on the line.'
'No, we need to talk. Just us.'
'...what.'
'It's about the kid. The child.'
'That idiot compromised the entire 911 system in Henswick County, made us look like dumbasses, and cost us over 23 mi... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | I set down the phone in disbelief. I felt as though my expression was blank, but from what I could tell through my parents' expressions, I wasn't as good of a poker player as I thought. The room was still silent as they waited for my explanation despite that. I couldn't look at them. My eyes glanced to a downward left ... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."
The shadowy figure clicked the receiver quiet as he stood over the lifeless body, still warm. A pool of scarlet blood slowly expanded outwards and filled the cracks of the dingy hardwood. He frantical... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sound was coming from somewhere inside the ruined building. Or at least, my helmet’s sensoria we’re picking up a sonic disturbance, of possible electromagnetic origin, emanating from inside the merry pile of rubble. I signalled my team and they piled up behind me, as we slowly made our way towards the derelict stru... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | ...I hung up, pleased with the knowledge that at least some of the nearby 6G cell tower infrastructure had been salvaged and restored. I pocketed the rest of the SIM cards, and made my way back through the shattered storefront, picking my way between looted display cases advertising "new" smartphone models, each over a... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | *I knew it.*
I dropped the phone, overcome with a sense of helplessness and frustration. For days, I'd searched abandoned home after abandoned home, just hoping to come across a phone that still, somehow, had a charge. It's almost ironic that the only one I could find happened to be an old school Nokia. Who the hell s... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | // First post, would love some feedback! //
I still couldn't shake the feeling that this was too surreal. I must be dreaming. We always knew that maybe, just maybe they were out there, but I didn't see it going down like this.
Just last week I was chilling on my buddy Phil's sofa, smoking bowls and talking about sp... | I was on the roof looking at the stars when the red rain came. I could see it coming from a long way away, so I did the smart thing and went back inside. Five minutes later something hit my roof. It looked like a giant fireball and threatened to burn the house down. I called 911. One ring. Two rings. Then an operator p... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."
The shadowy figure clicked the receiver quiet as he stood over the lifeless body, still warm. A pool of scarlet blood slowly expanded outwards and filled the cracks of the dingy hardwood. He frantical... | I was on the roof looking at the stars when the red rain came. I could see it coming from a long way away, so I did the smart thing and went back inside. Five minutes later something hit my roof. It looked like a giant fireball and threatened to burn the house down. I called 911. One ring. Two rings. Then an operator p... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | // First post, would love some feedback! //
I still couldn't shake the feeling that this was too surreal. I must be dreaming. We always knew that maybe, just maybe they were out there, but I didn't see it going down like this.
Just last week I was chilling on my buddy Phil's sofa, smoking bowls and talking about sp... | She cried in between takes. Not a loud sobbing that would make her throat sore or a quiet shudder that would make her breath shaky - just silent veins of salt water streaming down the hills and valleys of her sunken face.
How had it all come to this so quickly?
When she signed the non disclosure agreement she though... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."
The shadowy figure clicked the receiver quiet as he stood over the lifeless body, still warm. A pool of scarlet blood slowly expanded outwards and filled the cracks of the dingy hardwood. He frantical... | She cried in between takes. Not a loud sobbing that would make her throat sore or a quiet shudder that would make her breath shaky - just silent veins of salt water streaming down the hills and valleys of her sunken face.
How had it all come to this so quickly?
When she signed the non disclosure agreement she though... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | // First post, would love some feedback! //
I still couldn't shake the feeling that this was too surreal. I must be dreaming. We always knew that maybe, just maybe they were out there, but I didn't see it going down like this.
Just last week I was chilling on my buddy Phil's sofa, smoking bowls and talking about sp... | At first I thought it was indigestion, atomic wings washed down with cheap lager coming back with a vengeance. But the pain in my gut began moving north, settling under my sternum while sending tendrils out to my arm and up to my jaw. Pain. Fear. I felt tiny drops of sweat popping out on my forehead. “Crap” I thought, ... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."
The shadowy figure clicked the receiver quiet as he stood over the lifeless body, still warm. A pool of scarlet blood slowly expanded outwards and filled the cracks of the dingy hardwood. He frantical... | *"You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."*
The sticky, grimy phone bleats out the same message, over and over, in the hand of a woman. Well, at least I think it's a woman. The hand is no longer attached to an arm, but the fingers look slim and ther... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | ...I hung up, pleased with the knowledge that at least some of the nearby 6G cell tower infrastructure had been salvaged and restored. I pocketed the rest of the SIM cards, and made my way back through the shattered storefront, picking my way between looted display cases advertising "new" smartphone models, each over a... | *"You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."*
The sticky, grimy phone bleats out the same message, over and over, in the hand of a woman. Well, at least I think it's a woman. The hand is no longer attached to an arm, but the fingers look slim and ther... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."
The shadowy figure clicked the receiver quiet as he stood over the lifeless body, still warm. A pool of scarlet blood slowly expanded outwards and filled the cracks of the dingy hardwood. He frantical... | The day started out like any other, came from the central office to head to Morris High to do some PM work on their pool pumps. Morris High was weird, the school was 100 years old, but somehow they managed to bring in an olympic swimming pool. Of course, school administration slacked on turning in a work order for th... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | ...I hung up, pleased with the knowledge that at least some of the nearby 6G cell tower infrastructure had been salvaged and restored. I pocketed the rest of the SIM cards, and made my way back through the shattered storefront, picking my way between looted display cases advertising "new" smartphone models, each over a... | The day started out like any other, came from the central office to head to Morris High to do some PM work on their pool pumps. Morris High was weird, the school was 100 years old, but somehow they managed to bring in an olympic swimming pool. Of course, school administration slacked on turning in a work order for th... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "You've reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye."
The shadowy figure clicked the receiver quiet as he stood over the lifeless body, still warm. A pool of scarlet blood slowly expanded outwards and filled the cracks of the dingy hardwood. He frantical... | No help was sent, no masks, nothing. I remember when they closed down the city threw away key, shut down the emergency line and called it 'Quarantine'. Hospitals were already overflowing, the people donated beds and the usually empty corridors were filled with them.
We barely saved our selves and it wasn't just the ne... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | ...I hung up, pleased with the knowledge that at least some of the nearby 6G cell tower infrastructure had been salvaged and restored. I pocketed the rest of the SIM cards, and made my way back through the shattered storefront, picking my way between looted display cases advertising "new" smartphone models, each over a... | No help was sent, no masks, nothing. I remember when they closed down the city threw away key, shut down the emergency line and called it 'Quarantine'. Hospitals were already overflowing, the people donated beds and the usually empty corridors were filled with them.
We barely saved our selves and it wasn't just the ne... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | Nine one one, three simple numbers which could have greatly helped you out in a pinch. Not anymore, all organized civility is gone. Boundaries are fading with each passing day, what does it even mean to be human, when there is no humanity in people left? Once I was an ordinary person leading an ordinary life. No mor... | I let out a quiet sob and put down the phone.
“Are you ok? What did they say?” Karra asked
We’d been trying to reach 911 for over an hour, ever since we could get a phone to charge. The building shook again. I stood up and pushed the curtain away, looking out this window. The city was ablaze, no one, at least in m... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sound was coming from somewhere inside the ruined building. Or at least, my helmet’s sensoria we’re picking up a sonic disturbance, of possible electromagnetic origin, emanating from inside the merry pile of rubble. I signalled my team and they piled up behind me, as we slowly made our way towards the derelict stru... | I let out a quiet sob and put down the phone.
“Are you ok? What did they say?” Karra asked
We’d been trying to reach 911 for over an hour, ever since we could get a phone to charge. The building shook again. I stood up and pushed the curtain away, looking out this window. The city was ablaze, no one, at least in m... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | ...I hung up, pleased with the knowledge that at least some of the nearby 6G cell tower infrastructure had been salvaged and restored. I pocketed the rest of the SIM cards, and made my way back through the shattered storefront, picking my way between looted display cases advertising "new" smartphone models, each over a... | I let out a quiet sob and put down the phone.
“Are you ok? What did they say?” Karra asked
We’d been trying to reach 911 for over an hour, ever since we could get a phone to charge. The building shook again. I stood up and pushed the curtain away, looking out this window. The city was ablaze, no one, at least in m... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | I let out a quiet sob and put down the phone.
“Are you ok? What did they say?” Karra asked
We’d been trying to reach 911 for over an hour, ever since we could get a phone to charge. The building shook again. I stood up and pushed the curtain away, looking out this window. The city was ablaze, no one, at least in m... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | I let out a quiet sob and put down the phone.
“Are you ok? What did they say?” Karra asked
We’d been trying to reach 911 for over an hour, ever since we could get a phone to charge. The building shook again. I stood up and pushed the curtain away, looking out this window. The city was ablaze, no one, at least in m... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | He listened to that voice, that ancient, nameless voice saying the same sentence over and over again. He listened to the crackle of the line mimicked perfectly on the device pressed against his ear and heard the voice again repeat the words.
"Sounds almost mechanical" he commented.
"I think she knew what it meant t... | I let out a quiet sob and put down the phone.
“Are you ok? What did they say?” Karra asked
We’d been trying to reach 911 for over an hour, ever since we could get a phone to charge. The building shook again. I stood up and pushed the curtain away, looking out this window. The city was ablaze, no one, at least in m... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | ...I hung up, pleased with the knowledge that at least some of the nearby 6G cell tower infrastructure had been salvaged and restored. I pocketed the rest of the SIM cards, and made my way back through the shattered storefront, picking my way between looted display cases advertising "new" smartphone models, each over a... | 'Hey Mac. We gotta talk.'
'We HAVE talked. We've had five meetings, two with state, three with the governor on the line.'
'No, we need to talk. Just us.'
'...what.'
'It's about the kid. The child.'
'That idiot compromised the entire 911 system in Henswick County, made us look like dumbasses, and cost us over 23 mi... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | 'Hey Mac. We gotta talk.'
'We HAVE talked. We've had five meetings, two with state, three with the governor on the line.'
'No, we need to talk. Just us.'
'...what.'
'It's about the kid. The child.'
'That idiot compromised the entire 911 system in Henswick County, made us look like dumbasses, and cost us over 23 mi... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | 'Hey Mac. We gotta talk.'
'We HAVE talked. We've had five meetings, two with state, three with the governor on the line.'
'No, we need to talk. Just us.'
'...what.'
'It's about the kid. The child.'
'That idiot compromised the entire 911 system in Henswick County, made us look like dumbasses, and cost us over 23 mi... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | ...I hung up, pleased with the knowledge that at least some of the nearby 6G cell tower infrastructure had been salvaged and restored. I pocketed the rest of the SIM cards, and made my way back through the shattered storefront, picking my way between looted display cases advertising "new" smartphone models, each over a... | I set down the phone in disbelief. I felt as though my expression was blank, but from what I could tell through my parents' expressions, I wasn't as good of a poker player as I thought. The room was still silent as they waited for my explanation despite that. I couldn't look at them. My eyes glanced to a downward left ... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | I set down the phone in disbelief. I felt as though my expression was blank, but from what I could tell through my parents' expressions, I wasn't as good of a poker player as I thought. The room was still silent as they waited for my explanation despite that. I couldn't look at them. My eyes glanced to a downward left ... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | I set down the phone in disbelief. I felt as though my expression was blank, but from what I could tell through my parents' expressions, I wasn't as good of a poker player as I thought. The room was still silent as they waited for my explanation despite that. I couldn't look at them. My eyes glanced to a downward left ... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | 5th july, 2021
"so this is it huh. the rich have buggered off to europe?"
​
"yup, we stuck here. dying lights, dying people."
​
screw this. i couldnt stay in this homeless shelter any longer. all of england was in ruins, and the last of us had gathered in public shelters. there were no shelte... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The hack was simple, really. A decade old flaw within the operating systems of the printers used widely by the City’s municipal government’s was leveraged to gain entry into the police database, and to eventually the system architecture that undergirded the 911 call dispatch system. From there, it was child’s play. A w... | 5th july, 2021
"so this is it huh. the rich have buggered off to europe?"
​
"yup, we stuck here. dying lights, dying people."
​
screw this. i couldnt stay in this homeless shelter any longer. all of england was in ruins, and the last of us had gathered in public shelters. there were no shelte... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | 5th july, 2021
"so this is it huh. the rich have buggered off to europe?"
​
"yup, we stuck here. dying lights, dying people."
​
screw this. i couldnt stay in this homeless shelter any longer. all of england was in ruins, and the last of us had gathered in public shelters. there were no shelte... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | He listened to that voice, that ancient, nameless voice saying the same sentence over and over again. He listened to the crackle of the line mimicked perfectly on the device pressed against his ear and heard the voice again repeat the words.
"Sounds almost mechanical" he commented.
"I think she knew what it meant t... | 5th july, 2021
"so this is it huh. the rich have buggered off to europe?"
​
"yup, we stuck here. dying lights, dying people."
​
screw this. i couldnt stay in this homeless shelter any longer. all of england was in ruins, and the last of us had gathered in public shelters. there were no shelte... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | [TW : child abandonment]
[writing on mobile so formatting sucks]
“You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
She giggled, pleased to have made some noise with the phone in her hand. She pressed the screen again.
“You’ve reached 911. Thi... | 5th july, 2021
"so this is it huh. the rich have buggered off to europe?"
​
"yup, we stuck here. dying lights, dying people."
​
screw this. i couldnt stay in this homeless shelter any longer. all of england was in ruins, and the last of us had gathered in public shelters. there were no shelte... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The apocalypse wasn't really that quick.
It was a slow, painful death.
The perfect disease. A fungal infection that traveled by air. It took over hosts and turned them into mobile vectors actively seeking more.
Of course, the world did not take this lying down. A battery of phages, antifungals, all were fired. But t... | 5th july, 2021
"so this is it huh. the rich have buggered off to europe?"
​
"yup, we stuck here. dying lights, dying people."
​
screw this. i couldnt stay in this homeless shelter any longer. all of england was in ruins, and the last of us had gathered in public shelters. there were no shelte... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | We'd stayed as long as we could.
So many phone calls. So many reasons for the calls over the years we'd been on the lines. Medical emergencies, gunshots, drunk drivers, one memorable little girl calling for someone to help her make Jell-O, the rapes, the arson, the all of it bloody and crying, and only some bright s... | 5th july, 2021
"so this is it huh. the rich have buggered off to europe?"
​
"yup, we stuck here. dying lights, dying people."
​
screw this. i couldnt stay in this homeless shelter any longer. all of england was in ruins, and the last of us had gathered in public shelters. there were no shelte... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | >**GENERATIONAL BLESSING, OR GENERATIONAL CURSE?**
I could taste the iron- the blood that was rising up the back of my throat. I could taste the *fear*.
*'You've reached 911...This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.'*
I tossed my phone aside. It was only dead weig... | 5th july, 2021
"so this is it huh. the rich have buggered off to europe?"
​
"yup, we stuck here. dying lights, dying people."
​
screw this. i couldnt stay in this homeless shelter any longer. all of england was in ruins, and the last of us had gathered in public shelters. there were no shelte... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | It was just a game.
That's what we told ourselves as our small group headed out into the nearby forest reservation for the night. Our goal had been to see if there really was anything creepy in there, as one of us had gotten a little close with one of the guards, if you catch my drift.
She had found out about the se... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | It was just a game.
That's what we told ourselves as our small group headed out into the nearby forest reservation for the night. Our goal had been to see if there really was anything creepy in there, as one of us had gotten a little close with one of the guards, if you catch my drift.
She had found out about the se... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | He listened to that voice, that ancient, nameless voice saying the same sentence over and over again. He listened to the crackle of the line mimicked perfectly on the device pressed against his ear and heard the voice again repeat the words.
"Sounds almost mechanical" he commented.
"I think she knew what it meant t... | It was just a game.
That's what we told ourselves as our small group headed out into the nearby forest reservation for the night. Our goal had been to see if there really was anything creepy in there, as one of us had gotten a little close with one of the guards, if you catch my drift.
She had found out about the se... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | We'd stayed as long as we could.
So many phone calls. So many reasons for the calls over the years we'd been on the lines. Medical emergencies, gunshots, drunk drivers, one memorable little girl calling for someone to help her make Jell-O, the rapes, the arson, the all of it bloody and crying, and only some bright s... | It was just a game.
That's what we told ourselves as our small group headed out into the nearby forest reservation for the night. Our goal had been to see if there really was anything creepy in there, as one of us had gotten a little close with one of the guards, if you catch my drift.
She had found out about the se... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | Nine one one, three simple numbers which could have greatly helped you out in a pinch. Not anymore, all organized civility is gone. Boundaries are fading with each passing day, what does it even mean to be human, when there is no humanity in people left? Once I was an ordinary person leading an ordinary life. No mor... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | Nine one one, three simple numbers which could have greatly helped you out in a pinch. Not anymore, all organized civility is gone. Boundaries are fading with each passing day, what does it even mean to be human, when there is no humanity in people left? Once I was an ordinary person leading an ordinary life. No mor... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | The sound was coming from somewhere inside the ruined building. Or at least, my helmet’s sensoria we’re picking up a sonic disturbance, of possible electromagnetic origin, emanating from inside the merry pile of rubble. I signalled my team and they piled up behind me, as we slowly made our way towards the derelict stru... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | The sound was coming from somewhere inside the ruined building. Or at least, my helmet’s sensoria we’re picking up a sonic disturbance, of possible electromagnetic origin, emanating from inside the merry pile of rubble. I signalled my team and they piled up behind me, as we slowly made our way towards the derelict stru... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The sky had turned to an orange ash minutes prior.
Masks, although essential, made it hard to breathe what little fresh air was left.
I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to tremble slightly - this at least was nothing new, we had been experiencing this for years. Sometimes violent, often times a whisper - this ... | The apocalypse had arrived to little resistance. And how could we resist? How could we turn a blind eye to the inevitable? Our own undoing sown in countless ignorant seeds, watered with the blood of our brothers, our friends. What else was there to do? Tear ourselves down so we didn’t suffer just a little bit more? No.... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The hack was simple, really. A decade old flaw within the operating systems of the printers used widely by the City’s municipal government’s was leveraged to gain entry into the police database, and to eventually the system architecture that undergirded the 911 call dispatch system. From there, it was child’s play. A w... | The apocalypse had arrived to little resistance. And how could we resist? How could we turn a blind eye to the inevitable? Our own undoing sown in countless ignorant seeds, watered with the blood of our brothers, our friends. What else was there to do? Tear ourselves down so we didn’t suffer just a little bit more? No.... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | The apocalypse had arrived to little resistance. And how could we resist? How could we turn a blind eye to the inevitable? Our own undoing sown in countless ignorant seeds, watered with the blood of our brothers, our friends. What else was there to do? Tear ourselves down so we didn’t suffer just a little bit more? No.... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | He listened to that voice, that ancient, nameless voice saying the same sentence over and over again. He listened to the crackle of the line mimicked perfectly on the device pressed against his ear and heard the voice again repeat the words.
"Sounds almost mechanical" he commented.
"I think she knew what it meant t... | The apocalypse had arrived to little resistance. And how could we resist? How could we turn a blind eye to the inevitable? Our own undoing sown in countless ignorant seeds, watered with the blood of our brothers, our friends. What else was there to do? Tear ourselves down so we didn’t suffer just a little bit more? No.... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | [TW : child abandonment]
[writing on mobile so formatting sucks]
“You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
She giggled, pleased to have made some noise with the phone in her hand. She pressed the screen again.
“You’ve reached 911. Thi... | The apocalypse had arrived to little resistance. And how could we resist? How could we turn a blind eye to the inevitable? Our own undoing sown in countless ignorant seeds, watered with the blood of our brothers, our friends. What else was there to do? Tear ourselves down so we didn’t suffer just a little bit more? No.... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The apocalypse wasn't really that quick.
It was a slow, painful death.
The perfect disease. A fungal infection that traveled by air. It took over hosts and turned them into mobile vectors actively seeking more.
Of course, the world did not take this lying down. A battery of phages, antifungals, all were fired. But t... | The apocalypse had arrived to little resistance. And how could we resist? How could we turn a blind eye to the inevitable? Our own undoing sown in countless ignorant seeds, watered with the blood of our brothers, our friends. What else was there to do? Tear ourselves down so we didn’t suffer just a little bit more? No.... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | We'd stayed as long as we could.
So many phone calls. So many reasons for the calls over the years we'd been on the lines. Medical emergencies, gunshots, drunk drivers, one memorable little girl calling for someone to help her make Jell-O, the rapes, the arson, the all of it bloody and crying, and only some bright s... | The apocalypse had arrived to little resistance. And how could we resist? How could we turn a blind eye to the inevitable? Our own undoing sown in countless ignorant seeds, watered with the blood of our brothers, our friends. What else was there to do? Tear ourselves down so we didn’t suffer just a little bit more? No.... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | >**GENERATIONAL BLESSING, OR GENERATIONAL CURSE?**
I could taste the iron- the blood that was rising up the back of my throat. I could taste the *fear*.
*'You've reached 911...This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.'*
I tossed my phone aside. It was only dead weig... | The apocalypse had arrived to little resistance. And how could we resist? How could we turn a blind eye to the inevitable? Our own undoing sown in countless ignorant seeds, watered with the blood of our brothers, our friends. What else was there to do? Tear ourselves down so we didn’t suffer just a little bit more? No.... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "Stop calling, dad," I said quietly. "Nobody is coming for us."
My father hung up the phone and sighed, "I have to keep trying, Michael. If there's even a chance that they'll answer..."
I used my finger to peek out from the blinds at the street. This wasn't how I was expecting the zombie apocalypse to go. I'd seen ev... | The apocalypse had arrived to little resistance. And how could we resist? How could we turn a blind eye to the inevitable? Our own undoing sown in countless ignorant seeds, watered with the blood of our brothers, our friends. What else was there to do? Tear ourselves down so we didn’t suffer just a little bit more? No.... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The hack was simple, really. A decade old flaw within the operating systems of the printers used widely by the City’s municipal government’s was leveraged to gain entry into the police database, and to eventually the system architecture that undergirded the 911 call dispatch system. From there, it was child’s play. A w... | I called my friends one by one just to check if they saw what I saw in front of me. If they saw the buildings collapsing, the streets cracking and the people running in the streets. If they saw the ashes from the explosions. I called my best friend first hoping to hear her sarcastic tone pick up and say “ Brett no I do... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | I called my friends one by one just to check if they saw what I saw in front of me. If they saw the buildings collapsing, the streets cracking and the people running in the streets. If they saw the ashes from the explosions. I called my best friend first hoping to hear her sarcastic tone pick up and say “ Brett no I do... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | He listened to that voice, that ancient, nameless voice saying the same sentence over and over again. He listened to the crackle of the line mimicked perfectly on the device pressed against his ear and heard the voice again repeat the words.
"Sounds almost mechanical" he commented.
"I think she knew what it meant t... | I called my friends one by one just to check if they saw what I saw in front of me. If they saw the buildings collapsing, the streets cracking and the people running in the streets. If they saw the ashes from the explosions. I called my best friend first hoping to hear her sarcastic tone pick up and say “ Brett no I do... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | [TW : child abandonment]
[writing on mobile so formatting sucks]
“You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
She giggled, pleased to have made some noise with the phone in her hand. She pressed the screen again.
“You’ve reached 911. Thi... | I called my friends one by one just to check if they saw what I saw in front of me. If they saw the buildings collapsing, the streets cracking and the people running in the streets. If they saw the ashes from the explosions. I called my best friend first hoping to hear her sarcastic tone pick up and say “ Brett no I do... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The apocalypse wasn't really that quick.
It was a slow, painful death.
The perfect disease. A fungal infection that traveled by air. It took over hosts and turned them into mobile vectors actively seeking more.
Of course, the world did not take this lying down. A battery of phages, antifungals, all were fired. But t... | I called my friends one by one just to check if they saw what I saw in front of me. If they saw the buildings collapsing, the streets cracking and the people running in the streets. If they saw the ashes from the explosions. I called my best friend first hoping to hear her sarcastic tone pick up and say “ Brett no I do... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | We'd stayed as long as we could.
So many phone calls. So many reasons for the calls over the years we'd been on the lines. Medical emergencies, gunshots, drunk drivers, one memorable little girl calling for someone to help her make Jell-O, the rapes, the arson, the all of it bloody and crying, and only some bright s... | I called my friends one by one just to check if they saw what I saw in front of me. If they saw the buildings collapsing, the streets cracking and the people running in the streets. If they saw the ashes from the explosions. I called my best friend first hoping to hear her sarcastic tone pick up and say “ Brett no I do... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | >**GENERATIONAL BLESSING, OR GENERATIONAL CURSE?**
I could taste the iron- the blood that was rising up the back of my throat. I could taste the *fear*.
*'You've reached 911...This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.'*
I tossed my phone aside. It was only dead weig... | I called my friends one by one just to check if they saw what I saw in front of me. If they saw the buildings collapsing, the streets cracking and the people running in the streets. If they saw the ashes from the explosions. I called my best friend first hoping to hear her sarcastic tone pick up and say “ Brett no I do... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "Stop calling, dad," I said quietly. "Nobody is coming for us."
My father hung up the phone and sighed, "I have to keep trying, Michael. If there's even a chance that they'll answer..."
I used my finger to peek out from the blinds at the street. This wasn't how I was expecting the zombie apocalypse to go. I'd seen ev... | I called my friends one by one just to check if they saw what I saw in front of me. If they saw the buildings collapsing, the streets cracking and the people running in the streets. If they saw the ashes from the explosions. I called my best friend first hoping to hear her sarcastic tone pick up and say “ Brett no I do... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | " You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye. "
The message rang out through the hot, dry, dusty, tomb-like room, seemingly on repeat; only a rising three-tone beep punctuating it each time.
"John? John! Come in here, you have to hear this to believe... | The hack was simple, really. A decade old flaw within the operating systems of the printers used widely by the City’s municipal government’s was leveraged to gain entry into the police database, and to eventually the system architecture that undergirded the 911 call dispatch system. From there, it was child’s play. A w... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | He listened to that voice, that ancient, nameless voice saying the same sentence over and over again. He listened to the crackle of the line mimicked perfectly on the device pressed against his ear and heard the voice again repeat the words.
"Sounds almost mechanical" he commented.
"I think she knew what it meant t... | The hack was simple, really. A decade old flaw within the operating systems of the printers used widely by the City’s municipal government’s was leveraged to gain entry into the police database, and to eventually the system architecture that undergirded the 911 call dispatch system. From there, it was child’s play. A w... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | [TW : child abandonment]
[writing on mobile so formatting sucks]
“You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
She giggled, pleased to have made some noise with the phone in her hand. She pressed the screen again.
“You’ve reached 911. Thi... | The hack was simple, really. A decade old flaw within the operating systems of the printers used widely by the City’s municipal government’s was leveraged to gain entry into the police database, and to eventually the system architecture that undergirded the 911 call dispatch system. From there, it was child’s play. A w... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The apocalypse wasn't really that quick.
It was a slow, painful death.
The perfect disease. A fungal infection that traveled by air. It took over hosts and turned them into mobile vectors actively seeking more.
Of course, the world did not take this lying down. A battery of phages, antifungals, all were fired. But t... | The hack was simple, really. A decade old flaw within the operating systems of the printers used widely by the City’s municipal government’s was leveraged to gain entry into the police database, and to eventually the system architecture that undergirded the 911 call dispatch system. From there, it was child’s play. A w... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | We'd stayed as long as we could.
So many phone calls. So many reasons for the calls over the years we'd been on the lines. Medical emergencies, gunshots, drunk drivers, one memorable little girl calling for someone to help her make Jell-O, the rapes, the arson, the all of it bloody and crying, and only some bright s... | The hack was simple, really. A decade old flaw within the operating systems of the printers used widely by the City’s municipal government’s was leveraged to gain entry into the police database, and to eventually the system architecture that undergirded the 911 call dispatch system. From there, it was child’s play. A w... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | >**GENERATIONAL BLESSING, OR GENERATIONAL CURSE?**
I could taste the iron- the blood that was rising up the back of my throat. I could taste the *fear*.
*'You've reached 911...This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.'*
I tossed my phone aside. It was only dead weig... | The hack was simple, really. A decade old flaw within the operating systems of the printers used widely by the City’s municipal government’s was leveraged to gain entry into the police database, and to eventually the system architecture that undergirded the 911 call dispatch system. From there, it was child’s play. A w... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | [TW : child abandonment]
[writing on mobile so formatting sucks]
“You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
She giggled, pleased to have made some noise with the phone in her hand. She pressed the screen again.
“You’ve reached 911. Thi... | "Oh *shit*"
In stillness, I am. The memories of those I cared about matter no more. In the shadows, I am safe. Outside the street lights, I'll live.
The fires glow with a calling; its colors yearn for a soul to ignite. Its a malevolent beckoning many answer. Burn bright; burn a light on this night.. alight our homes,... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | The apocalypse wasn't really that quick.
It was a slow, painful death.
The perfect disease. A fungal infection that traveled by air. It took over hosts and turned them into mobile vectors actively seeking more.
Of course, the world did not take this lying down. A battery of phages, antifungals, all were fired. But t... | "Oh *shit*"
In stillness, I am. The memories of those I cared about matter no more. In the shadows, I am safe. Outside the street lights, I'll live.
The fires glow with a calling; its colors yearn for a soul to ignite. Its a malevolent beckoning many answer. Burn bright; burn a light on this night.. alight our homes,... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” |
''Let me drive'' Tom said to me and I let him drive.
15 minutes later the truck is smoking and we are stranded in the middle of nowhere. We walk for half an hour and then we take a break. I lay on the ground and I watch the clear night sky.
Tom comes up to me, ''I think I saw something there.''
I get up and I don’... | "Oh *shit*"
In stillness, I am. The memories of those I cared about matter no more. In the shadows, I am safe. Outside the street lights, I'll live.
The fires glow with a calling; its colors yearn for a soul to ignite. Its a malevolent beckoning many answer. Burn bright; burn a light on this night.. alight our homes,... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | I woke up in cold sweat, searching the room around me. Part of me hoped that the last three days were nothing but a nightmare. But when I looked at the calendar I had on my bedroom’s door, the only thing the red marker spelled out for tomorrow was doom.
I heard the tip taps of something coming to my room from the hall... | "Oh *shit*"
In stillness, I am. The memories of those I cared about matter no more. In the shadows, I am safe. Outside the street lights, I'll live.
The fires glow with a calling; its colors yearn for a soul to ignite. Its a malevolent beckoning many answer. Burn bright; burn a light on this night.. alight our homes,... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | "Seek shelter.." My voice choked as I stared at the phone in my hand. What shelter? My world which had revolved around the small black item was gone and I hadn't seen it coming. There had been no news alerts. No warning had rung out. It had come while people ate with one another, watched films. Some had laughed, others... | "Oh *shit*"
In stillness, I am. The memories of those I cared about matter no more. In the shadows, I am safe. Outside the street lights, I'll live.
The fires glow with a calling; its colors yearn for a soul to ignite. Its a malevolent beckoning many answer. Burn bright; burn a light on this night.. alight our homes,... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | We'd stayed as long as we could.
So many phone calls. So many reasons for the calls over the years we'd been on the lines. Medical emergencies, gunshots, drunk drivers, one memorable little girl calling for someone to help her make Jell-O, the rapes, the arson, the all of it bloody and crying, and only some bright s... | "Oh *shit*"
In stillness, I am. The memories of those I cared about matter no more. In the shadows, I am safe. Outside the street lights, I'll live.
The fires glow with a calling; its colors yearn for a soul to ignite. Its a malevolent beckoning many answer. Burn bright; burn a light on this night.. alight our homes,... |
[deleted] | [WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.” | >**GENERATIONAL BLESSING, OR GENERATIONAL CURSE?**
I could taste the iron- the blood that was rising up the back of my throat. I could taste the *fear*.
*'You've reached 911...This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.'*
I tossed my phone aside. It was only dead weig... | "Oh *shit*"
In stillness, I am. The memories of those I cared about matter no more. In the shadows, I am safe. Outside the street lights, I'll live.
The fires glow with a calling; its colors yearn for a soul to ignite. Its a malevolent beckoning many answer. Burn bright; burn a light on this night.. alight our homes,... |
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