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The End of Civilization

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vansc14

Published: Apr 3, 2013

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Sixty-one days. Almost nine weeks. That is how long we had left. The world had been predicted to end in exactly sixty-one days. This will happen on September 8 of this year. The impact will almost completely obliterate all traces of Earth as we know it. The announcement was made fifty-five days ago. Since then, literally everything has gone to hell.

The current date is Sunday, September 2nd, 2096. One week left until the impact. There have been several wealthy people claiming to have built supposedly “safe” bunkers underground that can survive the impact. Many people choose to believe them. Some others choose to think that they are lying. I don’t have feelings either way.

Almost every-single government has collapsed. There is no law, no police, no form of justice system. Just a free for all. There was people being killed in the streets without anyone giving it a second thought. The only remaining hope for survival is in this one company that has been rumored to have a self sustaining space ship big enough to hold about a million people. I am on a race to get on this ship.

Enough of this, lets go to the day before the announcement was made. Before everything went crazy. Before the mass rioting. Before the collapse of civilization as we know, sorry, knew it. Back to when everything was going fine and I was about to propose to my high school sweetheart.

2021-07-16 009

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