Day 1

I had been asleep for 5,647 days, roughly 15 years. At least that’s what Eider told me. Eider is a rusty old robot who was by my side as I woke.I still cannot remember anything before my long nap, but Eider says it will come too. Eider showed me food and water in the gigantic building we lived in and I learned it was just us. Eider said that my father created this place for me because I was ...

The ground beneath me shook vigorously for the fourth time within two minutes. People around me were running and screaming as the ground broke apart under our feet in a Walmart parking lot. Looking to my left I watched an older man get swallowed up by the earth as the cracks grew wider and wider. His wife stood there with horror written across her face seconds before the earth swallowed her whole ...

“I still hate you” I spat as he threw another log into the fire in front of us.

“As you’ve mentioned about five times now” he said sarcastically.

Slowly he walked up to me and adjusted the rope around my wrists until I could reach my food without any issues. Then he walked to the other side of the fire and sat down. The silence between us was painful, but well deserved. I listened to the fire cr...