Still Life by Alex Maher

Author:Alex Maher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: apocalyptic, end of the world, armageddeon, pandemic extinction human, armageddon catastrophe angels climate change sailboats pollution islands

My hand found its way to my mouth. I could feel the fear rising up within me readying itself to take control and reduce my eleven-year-old self to tears. The bravery left me and I fled the chemist. Outside, back in the street, the sun seemed that little bit lower. It glinted off the glass from the cars parked and dazzled my tear-blurred eyes.

I ran back to our shop and burst through the door, the buzzer signalled my arrival.

"He's not there. They are all frozen. Daddy. Dad?”

Dads figure was visible through the tanks as I ran towards the back of the store. I could see him. Hands raised. Phone in one hand and a paper towel in the other. Maybe he had managed to get hold of a doctor or something. Maybe he got hold of Mr Chase.

"There all like mum," I pushed through the little curtain which formed some kind of entrance to the back of the shop. "Daddy they are all th-"

He stood in front of me. Eyes locked on my mum. I could hear the phone's bipbipbip still clasped within his hand.

"Daddy?" I heard myself say. My voice seemed too quiet within my head. "Mum?"

"Dad. Dad," I shook him and the phone dropped to the floor, smashed and sent shards of screen under the fish tank stands.

"Mum?"

"Daddy?"

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