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DOOMED BY PROGRESS: A SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY, PARTVII

June 18, 2024 at 12:28 pm Leave a comment

                                               DOOMED BY PROGRESS

Due to technical difficulties, I will need to postpone my posting of The Ultimate Experiment. So, for now, I will begin posting my short story, Doomed by Progress. This story was published by Aphelion in May 2010.

As the temperature began to climb across the world, many of the poorer could not escape the areas of death. Millions, and then billions died. The smell of rotting flesh hanging over cities and towns, once havens for the poor, became vast dying grounds for those populations of meager means unable to retreat the horror around them.

As the availability of food lessened, conflict broke out in proportions never seen. Looting was common for food. What else mattered? It was a war of survival, not between countries but between individuals wanting to live. The bloodshed these conflicts produced was unimaginable. To survive people would kill their neighbors, friends, even their own families so that they may live on. But in the end, all this was useless.

Strengthened by the new heat on both land and water, hurricanes, the likes of which never seen before, feeding off the warm waters, took an untold number of lives.

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