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Historical Fiction

To whomever it may concern,

I apologize in advance for what you are about to read, some of the following facts may be hard to accept and it is understandable if you do not believe me. I do, however, ask you to read this entire message before discarding it, if the following does not interest you, please give this to the other one.

If you are finding this, the world has already reset, the apocalypse was a success and you have hopefully started repopulation, if not I would highly recommend reproducing before the human race is completely annihilated. I have left you with suitable mate, regardless of which of you finds this letter. hopefully they will suit your tastes.

But repopulation is not the main reason this letter has been written. You must be very confused as to what has happened that caused over 8 billion humans to perish, which is understandable considering your current circumstances, but I will explain everything in due time, just keep reading.

My family, namely my father, was the biggest global superpower in history, yet he was still unimpressed, as he should be considering the world was nearly in ruin under his control. An increase of crime rates, pollution, natural disasters, poverty, and population made the Earth a living hell for all except the wealthy, who could buy their way out of anything.

For generations my family had been planning a way to get the planet up and running again, however this meant wiping out more than 75% of the human race.

Now with all nuclear weapons under their control, the task of murdering the majority of the population had fallen to me, the only child. They claimed by leaving the wealthy, the economy would still flourish and overpopulation would no longer be a problem, and so from the moment I was born I was known as a savior, someone who would be able to fix all of the world's problems, but no one knew that I was being raised to be a murderer, or that they were the ones I was meant to kill.

I lived a protected life from the outside world until one day I decided to have a look outside. I was met with overwhelming grief, children crying, women screaming, men fighting. The world I was taught about was nothing like the one before me and I was filled with rage. I watched the men and women I was supposed to keep alive rape and kill each other, and that's when I knew, this world could not be saved.

I went along with my father so I would not raise suspicion, but in secret I was scheming a way to return the world to its formal glory, before humans ruined it. With tens of thousands of weapons at my disposal it would be impossible to keep the world in one piece. And so, I came up with a new plan: occupy a new, resourceful planet in which the most naturally gifted humans could live.

After months of research, I found it, a planet almost identical to earth, but the majority of space was taken up by salt water. It met all the requirements and even had vegetation which could help start a new race of people.

I experimented with many people, making them go into hyper sleep until I got the results I needed; a perfectly preserved body and organ systems that could last thousands of years if needed.

After combining advanced humans with hyper sleep and state of the art space travel, my plan was ready.

Today is the day, the one everyone was waiting for, I was "supposed" to release some new technology that would "help" the world revive itself but in reality my parents just wanted me to kill the unimportant people, but as you know, I have other plans.

The first step was the hardest. I had been trained to kill but had never actually done it. My first murder was my father, then my mother. I held a gun gifted to me from them to use for self defense but now it would be used to start a new era for all of man kind. As they talked to each other about how excited they were to have me carry out their terrible plan, I came from behind and fired off 2 shots. Both were direct hits and instantly killed both of them. You may think this information is useless but it is important that you know that as I am writing this, they're bodies are lying on the floor next to this table. Tomorrow will be the final day for everyone except for 2 people, and I will not be one of them.

I put you 2 in hyper sleep that will hopefully last about 100 years. During this time your body will not age but your mind will be temporarily reset. When you reach the new earth, dont worry, you will slowly get back your memories, walking, talking, reading and writing should come back quicker because they took up most of your bodies activity.

Here are a few things you should now, do not eat any round red fruits on this planet, the natural sugars will cause you to remember more than you should. Right now you should remember your natural survival instincts but nothing more. Unfortunately I won't be of much help because I no longer exist in your time but I will tell you what and what not to do. I ask you to please follow my directions and pass on my story to the next generations.

Understand I sacrificed so many lives including my own for you to be here so please, dont mess it up again. After all, I'm still not sure if this will work the way I want it to or not, but you are in charge of raising the generations to come, so good luck.

I sincerely apologize, I am aware that it must be challenging to accept that everyone you knew is now gone and that you are in charge if the new earth's well being, but bear with it for a while, you'll probably die soon anyways.

For further instructions on proper behavior, see attached papers: the ten commandments and the seven deadly sins.

Finally, write a book so I can keep my legacy alive, call it the bible. Maybe my story can be told even thousands of years from now. Also please do not consider disobeying any previous orders I have given, otherwise I will not let you into heaven (see attachment: heaven).

So, to whomever it may concern, Adam and Eve, my name is God, and I destroyed the world.

September 04, 2020 02:26

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Rebecca Lee
17:28 Sep 10, 2020

That was different. I like the style, the method and the ending, whoa. That was a a surprise. In looking at it for mechanics and grammar, I am sort of weird about this. Long complex sentences in short stories - well, in all books - just aren't necessary. And I use them all the time! :) I would go back through and edit some for punctuation, because there are some "pauses" that are missing. This means there needs to be some commas here and there. This paragraph bothered me - not the content. It was choppy to read. There was no smooth...

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Cassandra Thelen
03:57 Sep 14, 2020

Thank you so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it. This was my first story and I was trying a few different things to see what did and did not work so thank you for reading it over and giving me your honest opinion. I do tend to rush things sometimes if I overthink an idea which is basically what happened in that paragraph. I will try my best to fix it up and fix my punctuation. Thank you again for your time.

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Rebecca Lee
04:55 Sep 14, 2020

You did great though.

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Freddy Iryss
22:01 Sep 09, 2020

Great beginning and fantastic end - as I was reading, I thought of the Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde and the bible for the 'forbidden fruit', but the ending was still a nice twist! Good job!

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