Wednesday, 1 April 2015

100 Words: A future

Mere survival is the first step.  In this dirty, human-’fested hellhole disease spreads swiftly; for many it is their greatest hope.  The Space Exodus Project is a dead religion in comparison.

We’ve all a shelf-life of twenty-one years to fill a niche or be killed to make room: to establish ourselves into an approved career or get married to someone who has.  

I was never going to make those grades, too meek to not be destroyed by this unnatural selection.  I instead spent my time waiting for the pulping machine that tomorrow will fill my last view of the world.  


Written for 100 Word Challenge #419 on Velvet Verbosity; the prompt was the word Shelf.

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