This is part of Sue Vincent‘s
Thursday photo prompt – Anomaly #writephoto
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Anomaly : The End
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The birds must of sensed the Anomaly first because they suddenly left the area. No bird flew within a twenty mile radius of moors. The lights could be seen by day and night and though at first they went unnoticed eventually after all the animals left and all the flora and fauna died we finally saw the lights.
What they were we did not know but people thought they had been there at least a month , well we believe it had been much longer than that. News, unusually for news, spread slowly. Looking back I think it was fear of the unknown, everyone thought if they ignored the lights they would go away.
The lights did not go away in fact they grew, slowly at first but now six months on they have spread from Britain right across Europe and Russia,Alaska, Canada now they are heading toward the Americas. Nothing seems to affect them nothing seems able to stop them.
Yes the scientist and military have been busy testing the anomaly but they cannot test light can they ….. it is just colour it is transient it cannot be caught, measured or,as it appears stopped. Amazing isn’t it every government in the entire world is cooperating with each other…. All wars have ceased in an effort to solve the problem.
So the beautiful lights are moving around the world encircling us all with their ethereal hues. All the birds are gone, the animals too. Nothing grows anymore and we are all loosing our humanity. The government did try to keep order with the army but as soon as the stocks in the shops ran out anarchy spread like wild fire.
It is everyone for themselves , it is unbelievable there are bodies rotting on the streets people are dying of malnutrition, disease , thirst and plain simple violence. It is awful we are terrified to go out.
All those pictures of people trapped in wars, refugees struggling hand to mouth,thousands of people in Africa starving it is happening here in the so called modern world , though the way it is now that all the fuel has run out, apart for a very few, we may as well e living in the stone age. No “Feed the world ” when it is so badly needed!
I mention “The very few”, those with money enough or deemed worthy of saving have been hidden away somewhere to ride this out. I personally do not think the earth will recover from this. If it does my group and I do not want to be around to see what is left.
So I have left this very brief account of what has happened. Tonight we are going out to watch the lights and party with the alcohol and food that we have managed to accumulate we have not much strength left and we are sure someone stronger will kill us for our stocks before morning.
Suicide I can imagine you are thinking as you read that last paragraph , well yes but we have had enough there is nothing left to live for . The lights will soon have killed the entire planet. I have to laugh something so beautiful has brought us to this. Beauty has slaughtered us , well no we have slaughtered each other .
Such a dark post, Willow. It is odd, so many of the entries this week seem to have taken the lights as darkness.
It is fear of the unknown Sue!
I was thinking that…and yet, if it was a standard rainbow shape, it would just be pretty .
Yes true, but it is not the norm is it! 😱
No…and we do tend to fear what goes beyond the norm.
Yes we do don’t we!
Sadly.
😱
FAAANN-tas-TIC! 😀 ❤ ❤
Glad you like it, hope it was not too depressing!
All reading must be taken with a grain of salt. What’s important to me is if it makes sense and I can get my head around it. Not tooooo depressing. 🙂
Glad to hear that
I thought you wrote this so well a telling reflection on what might happen if we keep on sucking from the earth the way we are….sad that we could get to this stage isn’t it…
Yes as you say we are so selfish. The earth is mistreated the poor get poorer and those that suffer are ignored. Not to mention how much we rely on gas, electricity and oil if they ran out we would fall into anarchy very quickly. Terrifying.. I dare not think about it. Thanks for reading .
I like how you take something as beautiful as coloured light and have it destroy the world. Yet, as you say, we have destroyed ourselves. Frightening.
I just feel that we are killing our beautiful planet with greed and selfishness we cannot go the way we are forever! xxxx
We can’t go this way for many more years! Forever is a tall order now.
Oh! my yes it certainly is !
Dark, indeed, in contrast to the light in you/us; but, then, given reality as it is, let us hope ’tis not prophetic, as well. I’m afraid it might be….
gigoid, the dubious, with good reason
You are so right sir, we are on the brink!
Yep… damn bell curve…. SIGH….
*sad smile*
gigoid
We need a hero!
Aye; where’s Mighty Mouse when you need him?….Hell, I’d settle for Dr. Strange….
*wink*
Ah, if only imagination could actually make such characters a part of reality, in sooth….
Yes life would be so much better!
Even sadder smile!
Powerful story, Willow 🙂
Thanks Judy it is a fear of mine!
Terrifying!
It is isn’t it ❤
A dark and scary take.
I am afraid for the future xxxx
I think everyone is these days.
Yes you are right!
I really like your dystopian interpretation of the picture. It is funny how so many of us went to the dark side with this prompt.
Yes we were most of us prophets of doom. Let’s face it the future looks bleak if we don’t change our ways. Hey let’s look on the bright side. xxx
Beauty kills. Brilliantly written story. I felt the earth die. The end times.
It truly haunts me!
Thank you but I fear it may be true. xx
I’ve been afraid of what we’ve been doing to the earth for many, many, many years.
Me too, I hope it is not too late?
I pray that it isn’t