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Haven CityThis story may contain adult content. |
| Written by J. Schmitt | |
| Wednesday, 16 July 2008 | |
Haven City It was Sunday morning, 6:39 am. A slowly rising red ball drenched Haven City in a mixture of red and orange. It was the last day of summer in the biggest city in the western hemisphere. Merc was awakened by the first rays of light that glimmered through the barricaded windows. It would have been a perfect late summer morning. He heard the birds chirping happily "as if nothing had happened", he thought, when he silently glanced at the mirror doing his morning routine. After he had finished, he put the old magazine, with a politely smiling Hillary Clinton on the cover, back into the dusty, black cupboard, to the other souvenirsof the previous age. He grabbed his keys, got into open-topped Jaguar and dropped his briefcase on the backseat. He started the engine. It was a pleasant, familiar, almost transcendent wound. He zommed down the old highway to the harbour of Haven City where good old Jack was still clinging onto his torch, ready to welcome the tourists and immigrants that were visiting Haven City long ago, in the old age. Merc silently smiled at his collegues when he arrived at the harbour. his supervisor had piled up quite a lot of work. Merc sat down at the pier, solely, observing a swarm of fish fighting for the last bit of meat, knocking each other out, even ready to kill each other just to get the biggest slice of rotting flesh; "Capitalistic, stupid fish!", Merc thought. The supervisor moved closer to him and said:"You have to cope with it, we all lost something during the "Big Bang, but we have to go on... We will have cleaned up everything in one or two years and we can make Haven City turn into the biggest and mightiest City in the entire world..." Merc silently went into his bulldozer and pushed, bit by bit, the black and brown crowd of burned corpses down the cliff. A silent tear slwoly fell down his cheek,"one more year", "two for the most", he thought silently looking at the descending ball of fire drenching all of Haven City into a mixture of bloody-red and flamy-orange. Copyright 2008 J. Schmitt |
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