From: Sss44@aol.com
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:17 AM
To: akblake@lock-net.com
Subject: Only Survivor

Summary: Lacroix ponders life after the end of the world.



Date:    Sun, 8 Oct 1995 15:17:06 -0500
From:    "Sharon S. Scott" 
Subject: Asteroid Challenge: Only Survivor

Asteroid Challenge: Only Survivor
   by Sharon S. Scott

He was alone, and he was lonely. He had known he would be, but his
imagination hadn't prepared him for the reality. Completely, totally,
utterly, alone. At first he'd thought there must be someone else. But there
hadn't been. He'd looked. Everywhere. Not a sound other than the keening
wind and the soft shirr of ash falling from the sky. Not a life left other
than his.

He ached for his children and their slow, painful deaths. He'd helped them
as much as he had been able. Until they'd taken as much as he could give.
Correction--as much as he *would* give. In the end, he refused to give his
life for theirs. They were gone, and he was alone.

What to do with the time remaining to him, before he starved to death?
Travel? Dark, empty cities, and the rubble of monuments.

Music? No one but himself to hear his playing, and no electricity to listen
anyone else's.

Books? Even vampire eyes gave out after a library full of the stories of
other people's lives.

So, by candlelight, he had started writing of his own life.

And when he had finished that, he started writing of the lives of his
children.

And when he had finished that, he realized he'd been writing fanfic.

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Sorry, it had to be done. :-)

Scottie
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