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“Anno Domini Relicuum” by Eleanor Inn

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Winston Churchill once said: ‘To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.’ Each inch mankind advances towards a fluorescent future, a single day’s ignorance ebbs us kilometres back. The ignorance of consequence, the blatant disregard of the law, and the indifference towards relicuum - the future. The world is what it is today because of their irresponsible behaviour, and we’re the ones who are paying the price, with added interest.Three thousand years have passed since ...

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“The Aftermath” by Kristy Reynolds

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We all cheered when the announcement came over the news on the tv. The pandemic was finally over. We were free to leave our homes, free to see people we had only seen via video call for the last twenty two months. The pandemic had swept through our country first, taking a swift run across the globe. Millions had died in the first few weeks and millions more died as they reacted to their cabin fever after month eleven. People began to doubt the validity of the pandemic and doubt the fact that being quarantined in our homes was anythin...

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“The Cold Winter of 2032” by Letitia Reynolds

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It's so cold. I didn't recognize Kensington anymore, the small town that I had grown to love. I have not seen the light of day in years now. I had been underground with many others, and it's now 2032. The unthinkable happened, in 2029 a blast came from the sky, a flash of light, then suddenly everything went silent. I will never forget people had been talking, the talk was in six about months a catastrophe would hit earth. This was due to the dramatic climate changes over the years. There had been record numbers of: earthquakes, hurricanes...

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“A Mother of Flames” by Stephanie Orrell

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The perfectly round moon hung high in the inky black sky once more. Its halo cast a velveteen effect on the tree-topped horizon and sugared the nearby grasses, dimpling in the gently trickling river. In another world, another time, the view would have been magnificent. But Juniper sighed as she gazed up at it, her fawn colored hair grazing the top of her tattered linen pants. The moonlight even shimmered against her nose tip and cheek bones, reflecting in her irises as a pinpoint of white light. But to Juniper, the angelic full moon han...

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“what's left” by C Davis

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Half of the world’s population is dead. They were killed so that the other half could keep breathing. I step forward in line. My grey trousers and shirt mirror the outfits of those in front and behind me. We stand weary, heads shaven, waiting. It feels strange to be awake, it feels unsettling and unnatural. My body is heavy as I move slowly forward in the lengthy line. The forgotten feeling of hunger claws restlessly at my insides. The uneasiness of not being in control seems to plague the long line of humans waiting to be se...

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“Time Telepathy” by SHIPRA JHA

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Time Telepathy Definition- Climate change is a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular, a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. Climate change is a topic that has been discussed in every judiciary and has been debated to be directly proportionate with development. Although discussed but not looked after at an intensity it was supposed to be, the development has been told to be constant with a hu...

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“Beginning Of The End” by Raina Banerjee

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The Beginning of the End The sky looked like an old woman’s face, teeming with the smoke of several bombs. It was for the petty conflicts and politics because of which led to World War 3. Buildings came down like dust, a few entire countries had been wiped out, and plants now grew in only some select places. The temperature of the Arctic was always very cold. It seemed to Ruth...

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“Forced Evolution” by Rachael Clark

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First the fires, then the floods. Islands sank into the cold depths of the ocean, the skies turned red as the world burned. Crops failed, water sources dried up, people began to drop like flies. Then scientists began trying their hand at something that should have remained untouched; DNA. At first, nobody saw the harm in trying, after all the world was dying and without evolving, it was believed we would die out. The experiments began on insects, little things such as increasing their size and changing their colour. Nobody thought it could p...

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“It does not come from the land” by Heidi Ertl

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There are stories, passed on from the Old Ones who are now long dead, of buildings made from liquid rock and sand reaching endlessly into a clear sky. Once, perhaps, there was proof of their words in what littered the ground beneath the vines and moss and grass. Now there is moss beneath the grass, and vines beneath the moss, on and on forever until the word soil no longer has meaning. No remnants of the Old Ones remain, not even in the memory of faces, for even those who knew the Old Ones have long been under the moss, their bodies eaten ...

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“Vast Red Sky and Wide Blue Lake” by Sam O'Neill

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"Nice beard." The words fell out of his mouth and on to the floor, for he didn't give much effort to toss it over to me. I nodded, and gave a small smirk. He was young, no older than fourteen, so I appreciated his attempt at small talk even if it was a poor one. I searched for his name, "Thank you..." "John." He gave it to me. I nodded again. I was gonna say Josh. John's parents stood on the other end of the small dock over their supplies. The woman (Madaline I believe) gestured to some cans of rice, and the man (Andrew... or maybe Allen...

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“Blithe” by Lyss V.

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"Cornelius Walker, no wonder you've been classified as TOP PRIORITY." The andriod speaks with her cold voice. Still flat as a mechanical however sound taut since just now.She was trapped within a triggered cell during the hunt. On strength, she was confidential to win. Everyone who disobeys would die under her Vibrogun immediately. But Cornelius was a cunning one, the fact is he designed an escape route earlier. The Ranger never expect there was a secret passage under this tiny lodge, ends up chasing her tail within tangled routes. Her ...

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“The calm after the storm” by Helena Bosch

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My mother always tells us stories about her mother, my grandmother. My grandmother grew up in a beautiful house by the shore. My mum's fondest memory is the one of her whole family sitting around this big chair, listening to her mother’s stories of the sea, gentle wind, and raindrops that tickle your cheeks while hiding from the extreme heat they were suffering outside. She would talk about herself as a little child, spending entire mornings running across the beach, bothering tourists that didn’t understand the real beauty of what they were...

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“The Machinations of Man” by Emily Brownlee

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October 23rd, 2087. A bleak morning. It has been two weeks since the destruction of Toronto. They haven’t been seen today but I can still hear them tearing up streets and smashing buildings. The occasional scream of another poor soul lost to their terrible blades— “Oh come on, Hen. It might be the apocalypse but we’re not literally hearing people die left, right, and center.” Ella interrupted her bunkmate’s log recording, laughing at his melodrama. He was always more prone to overstatement on his masculine days. The two of them sat on se...

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“...phfft....phfft...” by Frank Lester

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A fog of decomposition swirled about my ankles. You could hear the earth die. Trudging through a wetland that had long ago succumbed to the poisoned atmosphere above it, I hurried to complete the survey for an atmospheric rendering station, the latest brainchild of clueless politicians and hacks to drum up business and take a slap at regenerating the planet. The heavy environmental suit I wore and the inability to see through the death fog at my feet, made walking akin to traversing a lunar landscape, a series of hops and slides. It clung ...

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“The Waiting Place ” by Mark Rodseth

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Damian cradles his head in his hands like a heavy stone. His brow feels cold, depleted of life. Eventually, he looks up and stares at the wall opposite his bed. It flickers to life, a million pixels bursting into existence on the metallic surface. The pixels form the face of a woman. “Damian,” the voice is soft but clinical. “Welcome to your weekly consultation. How are you today?”Damian forces himself up straight, unfurling his spine. His back feels old, stiff - twenty years beyond its time. He breathes in deeply and slowly exhale...

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Write a post-apocalyptic story triggered by climate change.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 134 stories

“Anno Domini Relicuum” by Eleanor Inn

“The Aftermath” by Kristy Reynolds

“The Cold Winter of 2032” by Letitia Reynolds

“A Mother of Flames” by Stephanie Orrell

“what's left” by C Davis

“Time Telepathy” by SHIPRA JHA

“Beginning Of The End” by Raina Banerjee

“Forced Evolution” by Rachael Clark

“It does not come from the land” by Heidi Ertl

“Vast Red Sky and Wide Blue Lake” by Sam O'Neill

“Blithe” by Lyss V.

“The calm after the storm” by Helena Bosch

“The Machinations of Man” by Emily Brownlee

“...phfft....phfft...” by Frank Lester

“The Waiting Place ” by Mark Rodseth

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a funny post-apocalyptic story.

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Write a post-apocalyptic romance.

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