The Conservative Cave
The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: The Village Idiot on July 07, 2009, 05:33:39 AM
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VISION.
An ongoing story from me over at http://libertyfic.proboards.com
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Something had happened, something awful.
The vague ideas were wearing off. I might not know who I was but I did know that I wanted to survive. Survive whatever this was.
I opened my eyes again, I blinked a few times to fend off the blurry images that returned to me. For a second I regretted it.
I was atop some kind of hill looking down, in the distance was a large city. Down both sides of the road I could see house after house were in ruins, piles of rubble, many of them on fire.
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Not far away a man and a woman were arguing about what they should do. The woman screamed that he should know what to do and he screamed back that its the government job not his to fix stuff.
"This is sad" Paul said "These people aren't going to make it. They don't know how to take care of themselves, probably learned its someone else's job to take care of them".
There was a collapsed apartment complex with dozens of people milling about, some were sifting through the wreckage. Looking for useful items? There were piles of 'rescued' electronics and small appliances, video game systems and the like.
"Not a clue. Not one friggin clue on how to survive" Paul mumbled.
Finally we came to Paul's home. It was similarly collapsed and partially burned. Nothing remarkable or significant about it to a passers-by. Paul led me around the wreckage that had once been the center of his life.
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The other four men at the table looked at us and nodded, I tried to look comfortable.
"This is going to be a complication, I know. We knew there would be a bunch of those, but this scenario was never dreamt up." Paul announced to those present. "Our friend here apparently can't remember anything, not even his name".
The other men looked stunned, sickened.
"Good God, Paul. What are we going to do without a Minister of Defense?"