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The Last

March 19, 2012
By Eshshah PLATINUM, Galloway, New Jersey
Eshshah PLATINUM, Galloway, New Jersey
32 articles 31 photos 239 comments

Favorite Quote:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." -Robert Frost


Crumbling.

The explosions rang, but I didn’t hear, my feet had become like molasses, the world moved at sluggish pace- swirling around me in that awful, deafening silence.

Dying.

So this is how our world will fall, I duck a crossbeam the size of a tree trunk, running, I don’t know why or where, it will take me an hour to run through the steel jungle new york has become- the streets are covered with rubble, crushed bodies, and debris.

Dead.

The last explosion sounds, I fall to the ground as the earth shakes, the booming still echoes in my head.

Silent.

I wake up in a daze; the jagged lines of toppled buildings skew the horizon, the dusty air so thick. I cough, pushing myself up. It is so quiet, no hum of traffic, no chatter of crowds. I feel as if that cough could be heard for miles. I climb gingerly over some beams, normally fear would paralyze me, but right now, I am too frightened to be scared. I yell.

“Hello?”

The most cliché line I can think of as if I am re-living every apocalypse movie I have ever watched. My footsteps echo, bouncing of the broken buildings and piles that used to be skyscrapers- I stumble my way to central park- I think of it as the most open space, so maybe the safest- no luck. The silence is sickening, the dust covers the ragged leaves of fallen trees, the park benches smashed by steel bars. What has happened? Who did this? Where is everybody? Why did I survive?

Lucky.

Was that simply it? I was in the right place at the relatively right time? I sobbed- a break in the deathly silence that envelopes me- a new feeling seems to creep out of the depths of my mind – not jut loneliness, no, something deeper, stinging.

Don’t ask me how I know- this feeling, it is so sure.

You wouldn’t understand.

Unless you have ever been the last human on earth.



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on Dec. 27 2012 at 9:35 am
GuardianoftheStars GOLD, Shongaloo, Louisiana
17 articles 0 photos 495 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Let&#039;s tell young people the best books are yet to be written; the best painting, the best government, the best of everything is yet to be done by them.&quot;<br /> -John Erslcine

That was so good! This peice totally deserves at 5 star!

elizamc83 GOLD said...
on Jun. 8 2012 at 4:31 pm
elizamc83 GOLD, Concord, Massachusetts
17 articles 0 photos 84 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;From now on, I don&#039;t care if my tea leaves spell &#039;Die, Ron, die,&#039; I&#039;m chucking them in the bin where they belong.&quot; -Ron Weasley

nice job! it's scary (in a good way), and i like your imagery :)

on Apr. 27 2012 at 3:26 pm
Basketball23 SILVER, Pine Grove, Pennsylvania
8 articles 13 photos 487 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I&#039;m living in a shell with no soul&quot; -Three Days Grace (World So Cold)<br /> &quot;Time still turns the pages of the book it&#039;s burned&quot; -Avenged Sevenfold (So Far Away)

I really enjoyed this one, it's one of my favorites of yours.  I really liked how you separated it with the one one blurbs.  Very nicely done.

on Apr. 26 2012 at 8:29 pm
sherberteater GOLD, Fruita, Colorado
13 articles 13 photos 199 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Friends are God&#039;s way of apologizing to us for our families.&quot;<br /> <br /> Thank God for friends like you!

you did a great job descibing things. Great job.

on Apr. 4 2012 at 3:06 pm
MrPuffin BRONZE, Park City, Utah
3 articles 0 photos 35 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...&rdquo;<br /> (By LCP)<br /> <br /> &quot;Promise me you&#039;ll always remember: You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think.&quot;<br /> (Christiphor Robin to Pooh)

I mean not as fast paced

on Apr. 4 2012 at 3:05 pm
MrPuffin BRONZE, Park City, Utah
3 articles 0 photos 35 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...&rdquo;<br /> (By LCP)<br /> <br /> &quot;Promise me you&#039;ll always remember: You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think.&quot;<br /> (Christiphor Robin to Pooh)

Wow.  I love it!  If I would change it at all, I would make it nat as fast paced.  Besides that, it's great!