Story of the Week!

Hi everyone! As promised, I will write a story every week, so here is this week’s:

Fires bloom. Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Ferraris race up and down the streets, wrecks happening all the time. Cash fills the sidewalks and mansions are crammed together on a former forest preserve. Ladies walk down the streets in 24k diamond earrings and authentic pearl necklaces, clutching designer handbags. Men come down the streets in suits and nice ties, hiding guns under their clothes. Everyone is in danger of being shot.

Police stations have been overrun. Hospitals are rare. Nurses and cops and bus drivers are too few and they work too hard. Nuclear weapons are poised all over the world and the planet is riddled with conflict. There are no homeless people. No starving people. No. Instead the world is 100 times more dangerous. And one man is to blame.

Jonathan Bernard. He managed to invent a machine that can make anything appear out of thin air. And instead of fixing problems, people’s greed destroyed the world. Pigeons and rats are rare. No one has seen a deer in years. Companies have to throw away all the extra AK-47s, cars, shoes, handbags, clothes, food, healthcare products. Jonathan Bernard has replicated his machine and positioned them everywhere.

I am Lily Jones. And I am caught in the middle of an unsafe world. I am 18 years old. I was 7 when the machine was invented. At first it was okay. They used it to replicate vaccines and food and fresh water. But then Jonathan Bernards gave the government access to his machine. I look out the window of my house. I can see the nukes at the edge of the city. Everywhere is urban. A few children play on the sidewalk with shiny new baseball things. Several adults stand guard and do not let them go into the street. I have seen it happen too many times. Children flattened like bugs by crazy drivers.

It happens fast. The kids on the street scream. The TV flashes a warning. I dive down onto the ground. Sirens wail above my head. It has happened. One politician has angered another. The nukes at the edge of the city blast off into the air, the noise filling my ears.

Then the whole world explodes.