One More Try by Paul McFarland 80 Word Flash Fiction contest entry Artwork by cleo85 at FanArtReview.com |
Finally, someone pressed the red button. No foot soldiers in this war. The exchange consisted of several hundred nuclear bombs. In a matter of months, over ninety-nine percent of the world's population was dead from radiation. Those who survived initially were dead within a year when their supplies ran out. There just remained sea life that was protected by the ocean water. In ten thousand years, when the Earth became habitable once more, life crawled ashore for the second time.
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