“Love and Family During the Great Death”
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A man and his daughter drive into a massive meteor shower that disrupts their lives, but it’s only the beginning. It’s the beginning of the end, or is it? An Apocalyptic tale that focuses on individuals trying to maintain love, hope and family amongst death and dying. Hopefully it’s not overly negative, with a lot of humor and positive emotions, but there is a lot of death in it.
Listing of the characters in the story. Included as a reference so you can reference anyone you don’t remember in the story.
01: There Wasn’t a Cloud in the Sky
The Sky Falls. Chicken Little wasn’t crazy after all!
02: A Few Things to Do on the Way Home
Having survived the meteor shower, David, Alice and Ellen head home.
David has a few visitors to his home.
Our Trio deal with several issues at home.
David has a few visitors to his home.
06: What a Rumpled Bed We Make for Ourselves
Visits make one reconsider one’s old relationships.
07: Making Sure Everyone Is OK
Honey, we need to talk …
After-storm activities.
You never know what’s going to go wrong next.
10: The Rest of the Week, or Shared Experiences
You just can’t keep secrets in a house full of women.
11: A Good Teasing Scrubs the Soul Clean
The teasing continues even as David asks permission for something he’s sure about.
12: Making Plans
David finally agrees to what he’d been avoiding doing.
A lot develops suddenly, but finally everyone has to face reality.
14: A Few Theories and Potential Explanations
Finally, an explanation!
15: As If Life Wasn’t Depressing Enough
Good help and some bad news for the Scott clan.
Things get even worse than they were.
17: Unsettling News
The bad news is personal this time.
Things heat up as they run into an armed attack.
Overall a quite good story with believable
characterization & situations.
Jake
You wrote a truly remarkable story, imaginative,
realistic,grisly, and finally Pollyanna-ish/Adam
and Eve-ish, together with Good over Evil. You
certainly couldn’t have included any more to
encompass the the best and worst of human
behavior. Your imagination was very fascinating.
Did I like it? No! Could I stop reading it? NO!
Did I like the final ending? YES, because I’m a
Romantic at heart.
Anyway, you wrote a good, interesting and
fascinating yarn.
Clarke
Thank you for a unique approach to a common topic.
Dark, yes, but most of the world is dark. Your
take is probably more likely than most of what is
out there for post apocalyptic on SOL. Many thanks
for writing and posting.
GB
WOW!! What an ending, tears and all! Kind of set
hard on this 90 year old man, when I think of my
own extended life on borrowed time.
I loved every word, every emotionally charged
moment.
This is a marvelous story – and it does end on a
note of hope! This was not always an
easy read – but I had little trouble with the end
– your notes had prepared me – thank you for that!
Thank you ever so very much,
Bill