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I've always kept diaries ever since I
was a child. I've documented my daily

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life in journals, carefully labeled on
the sides and covers so to keep them

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in order. I'm on my one
thousand and thirty third journal, and all

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of them I kept in order on
bookshelves. It's basically a ledger of my

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entire life, or at least it
was until my house burned down and I

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lost all of them, all except
for one that I never wrote. My

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father and I were going through the
wreckage. The burnt waters of the house

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had blackened and charred. The smell
of smoke and burning insulations still hung heavy

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in the air. I looked through
the pile of burned paper that had once

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been my journals. I saw the
family photos, all water damage from the

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fire hoses, at least those not
destroyed by the flames. Hey, what's

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this, my father said, Leaning
down, we both saw the edge of

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something rectangular peeking around the edge of
the ruined hole. He reached his hand

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through a destroyed part of the wall
and came back out with a dirty,

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smoke brown journal. Spatters of what
looked like dark ancient blood covered the surface.

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I saw it was labeled one thousand
and seventy seven. That is the

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one thousand and seventy seventh journal I
had started to write in since I was

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six. But that's impossible, I
said, more to myself than him.

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I never wrote that journal. When
the fire hit, I was filling out

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by one thousand and thirty third journal. I knew this for a fact,

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because I wrote huge numbers and sharpie
on the front of each one. My

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father rolled his eyes. He thought
keeping a diary was stupid and only reserved

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for girls, and he had often
told me so. He flipped it open.

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It looks like you're handwriting, he
said, handing it to me,

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if i'll grime me under my fingers. Its cover sprinkled with small patches of

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black mold and blood, as well
as darkened by smoke, yet all the

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pages were still legible. I put
it in my backpack and took it home

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with me. It was the only
thing that had survived the flames intact that

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I recovered, and yet I know
I never wrote it. I flipped it

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open to the first page, seeing
my own handwriting reflected back at me.

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I read the entries laid out there
with increasing horror. I read them all

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April first, twenty twenty five,
Today the world ended. I had driven

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across Arizona and New Mexico with my
fiancee, Stephanie. She wanted to see

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the Grand Canyon, and I always
said I would take her. So when

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I made a couple million dollars in
stock options short in the market after the

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Chinese invasion of Taiwan, I decided
to quit my job and travel. All

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around us spanned endless desert. The
sun looked down like a blazing, lidless

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eye, withering everything in its intense
heat. Only cacti and desert shrubs stood

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on the great flat plain. I
turned the rady one, but only one

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station came through. It was some
a m station talking about the recent Chinese

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invasion. China has lost an estimated
two million troops trying to take the island,

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the reporter said. In response to
the invasion, Taiwan authorized air strikes

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and the three gorgeous damn yes Yesterday
evening reports state that the Chinese air force

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has in fact successfully destroyed it,
causing flooding and likely millions more casualties among

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the civilian population. Taiwan cities are
all in flames. As I flipped the

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radio off, not wanting to hear
any more grisly news. I really need

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to use the bathroom, Stephanie said, breaking my reverie. I looked over

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Rader, seeing her large blue eyes
looking at me. Small beats of sweat

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broke out, and a light skin
her blonde hair ran down past the shoulders

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in shimmering waves. Okay, why
don't I pull over right here, I

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offered. She shook her head.
Oh, I want a real bathroom,

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she said, I sighed. I
haven't seen a house or store in quite

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a while, I said, But
as if fate wanted to prove me wrong,

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a small wooden building appeared on the
horizon. A town sign stood in

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front of it, Devil's Creek,
population fifty two. The building looked like

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some kind of old timey general store
that had been renovated to have electricity and

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central air conditioning. An ancient man
with a face like a raisin sat in

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a rocking chair outside, smoking a
pipe and reflectively staring off across the great

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empty desert. I glanced over to
see what he was looking at. In

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the distance, I saw roll after
roll of razor wire surrounding a massive fence.

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It had all sorts of signs with
skulls, as well as warnings about

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violating federal law by trespassing. We
pulled up to the store. The man

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finally looked over. His jellied eyes
reminded me of an old dog waiting for

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the needle. He was a small
man, no more than five feet if

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I had to guess. He wore
a straw hat and a shaded flannel shirt

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and smelled like sweet cherry pipe tobacco, Christ's straws. He said, in

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his fluttering old man's voice. It
sure it's hot out here today, I

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smiled, agreeing. What's that you're
looking at? I asked, pointing to

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the electrified fence guarding the apparently empty
desert. He gave me a serious look.

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That is where the bombs I kept, boy, he said, the

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big ones, the H bombs,
minute man, threes and B sixty ones.

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Well, so I hear people around
town talk, you know, I

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nodded. I wondered whether silos were
Can I use your bathroom, Stephanie asked

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hurriedly as she came up beside me. The man nodded. Back of the

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store, young lady, he said, in a quavering voice. Then he

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returned to his pipe and his meditation. Let me know if you need anything

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else. I decided to sit down
next to the old man. When I

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felt the first quiverings of an earthquake. It started small. I stood there,

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not knowing what to do. The
old man's eyes widened and he dropped

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his pipe. Embers and blackened tobacco
spilled out on the ancient wooden porch.

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What in the blue blazes? He
started to say, when a scream of

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powerful engines cut him off. A
burning chemical smell filled the air and looked

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over to the military site and to
the ground. Pulling itself apart, secret

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sliding panels covered in dirt opened as
in normal. Missiles slowly gathered momentum,

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rising up into the air from hidden
underground silos. Jets of blue flames shot

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out of them. They towered over
everything else in the area, each sixty

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or seventy feet tall. Within seconds, they began to move faster and faster,

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lifting themselves skyward with a screeching of
blue flames and smoke. Every minute,

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more and more came out, dozens
and dozens of missiles, firing and

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rapid succession. Stephanie came out.
I grabbed her hand, and pulled her

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to the car. We need to
get the hell out of here, I

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screamed over the cacophony. Her face
had turned chalk white. She followed me

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like a lost child. I pushed
her into the passenger seat and got in,

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turning it on and peeling out of
there. If this is a nuclear

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missile sight, I said, vomiting
the words as quickly as I could in

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the panic of the moment. Then
there would probably be an enemy missile coming

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to tarkt It. Soon, American
missiles continued to streak through the air like

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fiery dragons, and their way to
battle. We drove as fast as my

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car would go for the next twenty
minutes, breaking one ten and then one

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thirty miles per hour. I had
a very bad feeling about this, and

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then I saw it, the thing
I had been dreading. Missiles began to

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drop down from the sky, not
going, but now coming. I saw

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a streak of white shoot across the
sky in my rear view mirror. A

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sonic boom shook the ground, and
then the world exploded. Ah. I

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heard someone say, God, what, Then I realized it was my own

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voice. I opened my eyes,
I felt warm blood, trickling down my

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face. My car was flipped over. I saw the endless desert outside,

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now upside down all around us.
Great suffocating plumes of smoke rose into the

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sky. He plotted out the sun
and turned everything as dark as night.

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I looked over at Stephanie. She
was still unconscious, or maybe she was

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dead, I couldn't tell. She
hung upside down her seat bye, biting

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deeply into her shoulder. Geez.
I groaned, trying to unbocko my seat

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belt without falling and smashing my head. I mostly succeeded. I crawled out

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the shattered remains, and I flipped
over car, my legs as wobbly as

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a baby. Dear's jay, A
voice said softly from inside the car.

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It was so subtle I could barely
hear it. I knelt down next to

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the broken window and saw Stephanie stirring. Ah. She spat a little,

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blood, wiping her mouth. Oh
okay, yes, baby, I said,

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with tears in my eyes, looking
down the road. With a mushroom

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cloud hung over us like the blade
of a guillotine, We're okay. Luckily

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we'd been camping prior to this,
so the car was filled with the sinsaws.

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Inside the trunk, I had a
tent, sleeping bags, food,

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water, and toiletries. We also
had some knives, lighters, and lighter

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fluid. Stephanie filled her backpack with
as much as she could carry, still

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wiping blood out of her eyes from
a deep gash across her forehead. But

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overall, I felt like we'd gotten
fairly lucky. It certainly could have been

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much worse if we had still been
in the city. I shuddered thinking about

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it. I wondered if any city
still stood in the USA. The mushroom

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cloud continued to grow. It had
a combination of bright streaks of fire and

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black plumes of smoke mixing in with
the scorching cap. Its cap looked like

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it would go all the way to
out of space. Soon, the stem

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of suffocating smoke shot upwards, seeming
to unspool itself from the inside as it

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rose. We walked down the dark
road in a burning world. Jets flew

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overhead, streaking across the sky.
The echoing wine of powerful engines followed them.

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Moments later, sonic boom after sonic
boom exploded across the dead desert.

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Where are we going? Stephanie finally
asked. After an hour of walking through

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this apocalyptic scene, we hadn't escaped
the black clouds that hung over the sky,

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though the smoke had started to dissipate
as we got further away. I

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looked back and saw a figure behind
us. It appeared to be a man

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casually walking down the road, but
his eyes seemed to be on fire.

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They shone with an inner luminosity,
lit up like the eyes of a jack

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o' lantern. Something seemed wrong with
the man, and not just because of

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his eyes. He walked in a
jerky, twisted way. His head,

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which had been looking down, ratched
it up to look at me. A

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shudder ran down my spine. I
turned away, motioning for Stephanie to look

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behind us, but by the time
we looked back again, he had disappeared.

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Away from that, I finally said, pointing to the mushroom cloud,

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did you see someone just now?
I think my eyes are plane tricks in

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me. I could have sworn I
saw someone following us. Maybe it's another

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survivor, She said, maybe,
I agreed, non committedly not telling her

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about the eyes. He had been
very far away, but I had definitely

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seen him. I didn't understand where
he had gone. There was certainly nowhere

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to hide unless more secret government silos
and tunnels ran under the earth. Here

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he had simply vanished, like campfire, smoke and a strong breeze. What

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do you think happened, Stephanie asked, and she took a long drink of

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water. I think we all know
what happened, I said, bitterly.

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China started World War three. They
thought they could contain the fighting to Taiwan,

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but they miscalculated. Once a three
gorgeous dam got blown and millions of

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Chinese and the Yangtze River drowned,
it must have escalated. I don't know

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who fired first, were clearly the
US and China are at war. Maybe

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the war's over already, she said, hopefully. I nodded. It might

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actually be. If it is in
all the cities have been hit here and

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in China and Taiwan, there must
be hundreds and millions of people dead already,

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maybe more. Stephanie didn't say anything
to this, but she seemed to

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go pale. You need to stop
soon. I'm tired. We've been walking

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for hours, Stephanie said. After
another few hours, I agreed. We

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hadn't seen a single car or person
in that time, except for the man

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with the eyes. My feet screamed
at me with throbbing blisters and sharp pains.

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My cellphone and watch had stopped working
during the blast. Some electromagnetic pulse

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from the warhead must have disabled all
electronics in the area, so neither of

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us knew how long we'd been walking. With the sky covered in black smoke

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as far as the eye could see, I didn't even know if it was

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day or night anymore. We set
up the tent. I crawled in exhausted.

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I felt like I must have walked
for twelve hours. I took off

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my wet socks, got into the
sleeping bag, then instantly passed out.

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I awoke, suddenly confused. Something
had scared me. Maybe it was in

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the dream, but no, I
still heard it, a scratching sound,

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light and insistent on the outside of
the tent. Stephanie still slept soundly next

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to me. I shoot her.
She groggily opened her eyes. I looked

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at my pistol next to my pillow, grabbing it up. Its solid metal

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grip felt real and powerful in my
hands. But when I remembered the glowing

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eyes of the thing and how it
had vanished in an instant, like a

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puff of smoke. It started to
feel much smaller. What is she began

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to say. I clamped my hand
over her mouth. Her eyes went wide.

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I put my finger to her lips. She nodded, and I slowly

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removed my hand. Now I could
tell she heard it too. It was

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like someone was running a long,
sharp finger air over the outside of the

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tent, walking around it in circles. Though I didn't hear any accompanying footsteps.

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It was too dark to see any
silhouettes or shapes through the thick fabric.

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We heard a low, diseased breathing
coming from outside. The rattling breaths

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seemed to choke on their own fluids, like the gurgling gasps of a pneumonia

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patient. I couldn't take it anymore. I grabbed the flashlight from next to

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the sleeping bag and flicked it on. With my arms crossed, my gun

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in one hand and the flashlight in
the other. I motioned for Stephanie to

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open the tent. She hesitated for
a long moment. After taking a deep

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breath, she ripped it open in
a single pull. Yet no one stood

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there. I looked out and the
smoke, black and starless sky shadows bounced

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and danced around the cacti and cracked
pavement of the street. I heard a

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very subtle sound from my right,
a slight shuffling of sand in a blur

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and with barely any sound. That
diminute of man with the fire in his

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eyes scampered towards me. His shoulders
and vertebrae crippled like those of a hunchback.

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His face only came up to the
level of my chest, but he

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seemed to straighten and grow as he
got nearer. There was a crackling,

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snapping sound coming from inside his body. It sounded like his bones were breaking

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and knitting themselves back together. By
the time he reached me, he towered

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over me. This all happened very
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a second. My vision became filled
with a hypnotizing, strobing white light that

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came from his head. But I
glimpsed the rest of him too. He

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had a mouth like an infected sore. Pieces of his lips were rotted or

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torn away, and behind that mutilated
flesh beheld a gibbering, gnashing mouth.

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Twisted famberic teeth grew out at the
tops of his gums, intertwining with those

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growing from the natural spots. These
dozens of overlapping fangs each looked as sharp

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as a scalpel made to slicely flesh
like butter. His nose was eaten away.

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In its place, I saw a
patch of ragged necrotic tissue that oozed

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yellowish puss and blood. His skin
was as dark as obsidian and seemed to

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glow with a similar iridescence. Hello
there, hardener, the gnashing things said

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in a slow takes a straw.
I looked away from its inhuman eyes seen

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Stephanie, petrified in the doorway of
the tent. She held a long buck

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knife in one hand and a canister
of ocy tear gas spray in the other.

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I opened my mouth, but nothing
came out. What do you want

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from us, Stephanie asked in a
quivering voice. The creature's mutilated cheeks parted,

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shrewing more clusters of teeth growing out
of every spot in his gums like

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a tumor. Everything, he said, in a slow drawl, I want

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everything. I raised a barrel towards
his head, my finger tight on the

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trigger. You want to rob us? Is that it? I? Asked.

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The creature laughed, a tortured sound
like shattering bones and grinding metal.

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I don't give a damn about this
crabby look around. It ain't worth a

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damn to me. I want everything
from you and the girl you square on

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that. I'm going to give you
three seconds to get out of my sight,

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I said, before I start.
The greatuous hand came up on a

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freakishly long arm. The arm seemed
to lengthen, breaking and regrowan as it

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twisted towards me. I fired as
it smacked me hard on the head.

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I saw stars and went sprawling,
the pistol flying off and landing on the

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concrete a few feet away. The
abomination grabbed a screaming, crying Stephanie from

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the tent, carrying her under one
arm as if he were simply moving an

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irate toddler. He threw her in
front of him. I saw with horror,

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and my shot missed him. I
I am the true king of this

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world, he hissed as he knelt
down over her. Aye and the endless

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void between galaxies and the spinning black
holes that rip apart worlds ay and forever.

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Fire poured out of his hands and
arms like lava. As Stephanie lay

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on the ground, her eyes went
wide as the first of the flames bit

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into her skin. I saw a
chest and stomach caught fire, as if

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it had been sprayed with gasoline.
With an animalistic strength, she jumped up,

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still burning, She tried to grab
the man in a bare hug.

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The fires spread to his body,
but he quickly pushed her away. The

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fire spread up and down her clothes, into her hair. Her face began

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to melt as she gave an ear
splitting shriek of pure agony. Drops of

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liquid fat and burnt, sizzling blood
ran from a crackling, blackening skin.

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I love to watch them dance,
he gurgled in a diseased, raspy voice.

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Stephanie jumped from a leg to leg, putting her arms straight in front

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of a body to try and keep
them from the flames. Covering a torso

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with a fire seemed to have an
inner life spreading across a flesh, as

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if rivers of nape arms flowed over
a body. I grabbed the gun running

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over. I put it into the
back of the man's head and pulled the

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trigger. The fire had started to
spread across his chest, but He had

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no facial expression. He stood there, grinning like a skull. Thick chunks

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of black flesh burst out in his
destroyed skull. I saw no blood or

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organs. With thousands of tiny dark
worms writhing and slithering, he fell forwards

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a few feet away. Stephanie also
finally collapsed, still twitching and screaming.

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Ran over to a pulling a water
bottle from my backpack. I poured it

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on her, but it was like
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It sizzled and hissed as it turned
to steam, putting out a small

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portion along her chest for a few
moments, and then the fire flickered back

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up. She gave a choked death, gasped seconds later, and stopped moving.

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My body had become little more than
a blackened husk by this point I

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looked at the evil inhuman thing that
had done this to my horror. I

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saw his hands clenching and unclenching,
his legs twitching. The black worms had

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started to restitch his skull back together, the tiny heads poking out through the

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wound and moving tissue around like diligent
little laborers. Sickened, I ran the

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landscape had started to change. Rocky
cliffs now loomed overhead, dozens of feet

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high. I stumbled up the rock
faces and eventually found a small cave.

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I crawled in and with my flashlight, finished this journal. I know this

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will be my last diary, my
last will and testament, left in some

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rocky cave of a destroyed world,
because the true king of this world is

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on his way here, and he
loves to watch people dance