Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXX:
Write a historical fiction short story, exploring a counterfactual, something that might have happened but didn't (e.g. "What happened after the U.S. lost the Revolutionary War?").
Winner(s), if any, will be featured on our spotlight, newsletter, and social media, and shared with our publishing contacts (that include Trident Media Group and Simon & Schuster).
Winners determined by the Prose team based on writing skill and creative edge.
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#Fukushima Was the Beginning Of the End,
the Radiation Seeping Into Our Oceans;
Causing Mutations & InSanity;
From Fish to Man.
Driving Them to Feast On the UnInfected;
a World Damned.
I Still Dream Of the Food Riots,
When we Could No Longer Eat From the Sea.
the Crashing & Burning of Cities;
Parents Eating Kids.
Cops Going Door to Door
Rounding People Up For the Cattle Camps,
the Old & Sick Shot
& Cooked In the Street.
How I Survived Still Mystifies,
aLone & Not One Friend;
All Ways Running,
Running For the Hills.
So Many Things Have I Done
& the Things I Know I Will Do
Just To Survive Another Setting Sun.
How Many Lives Must I Take
to Pay For Mine.
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