The End - The Beginning

Eventually they were told about the comet.  "Get supplies... inside...anything."  Too late.  Food, water, gone, procured for Project Second Genesis...  our progenitors.  Humanity's survival left no alternative.  Now, just west of dawn, the seemingly endless night ending, we prepare to return, and fear, could anything survive above? Cold, dark, desolate.  Are they waiting?

Legend tells of those who fled deep into the earth, leaving us destitute, leaving us to die.  Someday they'll crawl from their culvert, after centuries of endless winter nights, to claim our world.  Remember their machinations, their forked tongues.  When dawn returns we'll be waiting, to redirect the comet's fury.

Despite training

Overslept

They attacked time after time

They attacked time after time, destroying our fortifications as fast as we could rebuild them.  Our battle was hopeless, our enemy relentless and indomitable, ever advancing, full of mindless destruction. Still we battle on.  They will never cease, neither will we, well, at least not until the tide goes out.

I awoke with a start

I awoke with a start drenched in sweat.  The rest hadn’t done me well; my headache was worse as were various other aches of my old age.  I thought it odd and annoying that my wife was nagging me from another room; hadn’t that old hag been gone for years?

Excited, I entered the laboratory

50 Word Stories

I know it's behind me, not watching me, it has no eyes. Then, out of nowhere, it's stunted figure appears, stubby arms flailing. Slowly, silently, it takes on the form of a man, then stretches out into a distorted gangly shape evaporating into the darkness. My heart races. I run.
~ Aaron

Do we need all these options? I want only the best. A better model comes out every year, why not get a cheap base model and upgrade yearly? Have you seen the cost of upgrades? Right, let’s go high end. Where’s the salesman?Doctor, we’re ready to have a baby.
~Matthew

Jump, Jump, scurry, swing, swing, grab. Success, joy, triumph! Mmmm, delectable treat! Worth every risk! What’s this, a bug? Hazah! Another prize. Footsteps? Familiar odor? Wait, oh no, a fellow foe coming to steal my prize! Must escape, hurry, grab precious prize! Scurry, climb, jump, swing…Oh look, another bug! Victory!
~Meghan

So warm, so nice. Oh look, the farmer, ouch! Its dark, its cold! Oh look, it’s farfnuckle! Now who’s this, hey, no pulling! Ahh, its warm again. What’s that shiny thing? Ouch! Finally, peace, but wait…I’m sinister, what has changed? I think I’ve lost weight too! So warm, I’m glowing!
~Meghan