Last Man On Earth
(© Daniel Lee)
Page 2 Thunder cracked in the distance, a flash of
lightning streaking out across the sky. The wind started to swirl over my
head. I looked up and smiled at the shining silver disk spinning above my
head. A long metal arm reached down and unfolded into a step under my feet. I
nodded to the glassy eye that followed the step down and steadily felt myself
glide into the sky above the Cross, above the Mole Hill and all the world as
the first drops of rain began to fall. Within moments of securing the rose and
myself I was looking through a port hole at the storm. The black clouds had
formed funnels filled with spiraling debris and flashing pops of lighting. And
as soon as it had come it was gone, and in its wake there was nothing but a
haze of dust. The city was gone. "Did you get it," the captain
asked over the speakers. "Did you get it?" "One rose." The answer seemed
unsatisfying. In those rotting hulks of concrete and metal had been a story, a
history. All of it forgotten in a few short minutes of wind and water. As we floated into the atmosphere and beyond
I looked down at the brownish globe covered in dark clouds and flashes of
light. I was the last man on earth, the last man that would ever be on earth. It felt hollow.
- THE END -
Other contributions by this author:-
1. Confession (13-Jun-2005)
| | A confession of guilt from the man responsible for setting loose the undead on humanity. |
2. End Transmission (15-Jun-2005)
| | Excerpts from Army radio traffic during the first week or so of the undead plague. |
3. The Nightmare (25-Sep-2005)
| | A man's nightmares become his reality, and the world's. |
4. Jacob's Tribe (31-Oct-2005)
| | The evolution and escalation of man's fight for survival some fifty years after the Day of the Dead. |
5. Another Day, Another Dollar (16-Dec-2005)
| | In a world where the dead have risen and returning them to the grave is a thriving business, no one's better than undertaker Charlie Stone. This story is a narrowly avoided apocalypse and life returning to a semi-normal state. |
6. In The Darkness Of Dreaming (5-Jan-2006)
| | A man delves into a world where nightmarish gods reign supreme and all he wants is to find his way home. |
7. The Masochist (8-Jan-2006)
| | Mr Dalton never knew the difference between pleasure or pain until his testing began. A slip of the knife cut short his research. |
8. Charlie Stone: Undertaker (Revised 14-Apr-06) (24-Feb-2006)
| | In a world where the dead walk and returning them to their graves is a booming business, there's no one better than Charlie Stone. I've left it as a cliff-hanger not having a better way at the moment to end it. |
9. Nails In The Iron Casket (17-Aug-2006)
| | A soldier's thoughts as he prepares to make a drop to an alien planet miles beneath. |
10. Scavenger Hunt (29-Jan-2007)
| | Another adventure for Charlie Stone. A macabre scavenger hunt leads to a startling conclusion for the undertaker. |
11. So They Went To Denver (29-Jan-2007)
| | It should have been just another day for Mike. Get up, go to work, come home and get a little drunk. But today the dead have risen and they're all walking to Denver. |
12. Charlie Stone: Some Enchanted Evening (28-Jun-2007)
| | This is another Charlie Stone story - Linda Campbell and Charlie go out for a night on the town and are having a perfect evening before a couple of ghouls ruined it all. |
13. Charlie Stone: The Commission (Part One) (19-Dec-2007)
| | The first half of another Charlie Stone novellette. Charlie gets a visit from an old friend whose bringing bad news. A zombie snuff director is operating out of Berry Hill and he has a score to settle with Charlie. |
14. Undead: A Review (9-May-2008)
| | A field guide to familiarize survivors with the undead. Its a relatively short piece written by the Professor of Undead Studies at an unidentified school in the surviving world. |
15. Gravedigger: An Undead Super Hero (24-Jul-2008)
| | Gravedigger is a rough idea I have for a superhero in an undead world (kind of Batman with zombies). This is the first encounter with the Gravedigger seen through the eyes of a survivor in a small camp somewhere near Nashville. |
16. Paint by Numbers (3-Apr-2009)
| | Short story about a man with a macabre hobby. |
17. A Place To Hide (16-Apr-2010)
| | A man and another survivor find themselves trapped in an abandonned garage. The next morning, the man finds himself with even less than he had started out with the night before. |
18. No Rest for the Wicked (11-Oct-2010)
| | Charlie Stone and Pete Nebraska are trying to find a breach in the wall near Berry Hill's border with the zombie infested wilderness when something new and angry attacks. |
19. Hangman (5-Dec-2010)
| | A short zombie piece about a man sitting alone in a bar for the last time. With nothing but a jukebox and a warm beer, he struggles to remember a happier time before his eventual end. |
20. Charlie Stone: Roadside Service (10-Aug-2011)
| | A very short road trip for Charlie. Coming back from a job his hearse breaks down and the first mechanic who shows up is anything but helpful... or living. From one problem to another, he has to comfort the poor, novice wrecker driver who has never seen a zombie before today as they load up the hearse.' |
21. The First Day After (29-Mar-2013)
| | Coming back from a nightmarish war against monsters and zombies, a man discovers that breaking old habits is hard. |
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