Aftermath by C. Dennis Moore

Author:C. Dennis Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: angels, death, redemption, despair, devils, wrath, end of the world, ten commandments, armageddon, rapture, seven deadly sins, war in heaven
Publisher: C. Dennis Moore

WRATH

SHE WOKE UP IN A PLACE she didn’t recognize, and it reminded her of another awakening in a time when the world had changed overnight. But beyond that brief flash of the past, she couldn’t say anything more, mostly because she simply didn’t know. She sat up and rubbed her eyes, looked around and wondered Where am I? and How did I get here? and a dozen other questions she didn’t have immediate answers for.

Strangely, she felt calm. Whatever had happened, or was going to happen, it didn’t worry her.

She stood up and dusted herself off. Dressed in clothes she wasn’t sure were hers except they fit okay, a pair of Coke pajama pants and a Jimi Hendrix T-shirt, she wore old torn tennis shoes that may have once been Converse but were now lucky just to be called shoes at all. She tested the shoes and they stayed on her feet as she took a step. She was facing a direction when she stood, so that was the direction she headed, not knowing what lie ahead.

She had woken in a field of tall grass, overgrown, untended for who knew how long. But closer inspection as she made her way across the field indicated this had, at one time, been a park. Benches lie hidden amongst the grass, in the distance to her left a paved basketball court and to the right a jumble of forgotten play equipment. Everything here looked just as abandoned as she felt and she suspected this place hadn’t experienced a child’s laughter in years.

The park was vast and she walked for what felt a long time, passing another play area, a parking area and a lagoon teeming with goldfish the size of bass. Down a long driveway and across the street at the bottom were the empty remains of a city swimming pool, also untended for however long the world had been empty.

And empty it was because she could walk down the middle of the street and there were no cars coming either way, no people walking dogs or carrying babies despite how beautiful the morning sky was. She wondered for the first time what day it was, what time, and that brought back the question of how had she gotten here?

The street was long and wide, four lanes across, an avenue, although the glare of the sun shone off the street signs preventing her from reading the name of the avenue without moving closer. She passed a Dollar General with empty glass doors, the interior of the building black and, she guessed, empty. Same with the grocery store, the gas station, the Dairy Queen she passed. All looted, all abandoned.

An intersection sparked a memory she couldn’t make solid, but it was enough, so she turned left and followed the street a few more blocks until her feet said to turn again, this time to the right. She did, and continued on.

Everything around her should be familiar, she felt, but how or why, she couldn’t say.

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