37 days to your Osprey Evisceration …
… or so his Smartphone tells him. Dumbphone. No use to him now – not since the Infinite virus hit – just churning out data that is ever more random, pointless, irrelevant.
He hurls it over the balcony and watches it cartwheel down to bounce off a shattered television, clip a ruined microwave, rest on a dead laptop. Discarded machines ring the apartment block like a sediment of crazed fossils.
The city is silent and still … save for rising columns of smoke, like signals from an ancient past now become endless future.
He wonders who lives next door.
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a nomad in cyberspace 
“… He wonders who lives next door.”
Quite dark, but ever hopeful 🙂 This story could well be the opening scene for a new Terminator sequel! 😀
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I wish … my stocks of champagne and caviar are running dangerously low! Yeah, the end is meant to lift it a little …
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This 100 word format certainly stretches the imagination to fill in the spaces and provide a lead into the future. Are the fires the end of civilisation or will they start talking?
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Good question, Opher, perhaps the final sentence tilts it in favour of the latter … anyway, here’s a funny cartoon I’ve just found:
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Nice ending!
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Thank you … hopefully more 🙂 than 😦 !
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Ooh nice post. I love the ending and how you made this so dark and mysterious. Very creative. Followed! Keep up the good work. Please check out my response to the prompt and let me know what you think! https://onemoreshotplease.com/2017/01/09/animal-shelter-ootd/
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Thanks for your positive comment, will certainly look at your post.
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great atmosphere here (K)
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😀
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Very imaginative use of the “infinite” prompt! I hope he’ll now pop next door and find out who has been living next to him all these years.
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I’m sure he will … could be a whole new story!
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“He wonders who lives next door.” Love this line because it is so true of the life we live today. We “talk to and meet” people all over the world via platforms like WordPress and FB, but very often we haven’t met the one living closest to us. For all we know we could have swapped comments with them online and not know that we could actually hold that conversation face to face. Great story.
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I’m sure the way forward will involve a wholesale return to a kind of village life, where everything – schools, work, leisure, holidays – are within reach and the communal side of life is favoured. I’m sure the recent votes in the UK and US are partly bound up with this, but then I am an incurable optimist!
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Very intriguing. A hundred words seems so difficult!
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Glad you liked it. I find it concentrates my mind, which otherwise has a tendency to ramble …
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I’m tempted to give it a go
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You should … it’s over before it starts, practically!
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