Rude Awakenings

‘Come the year of three nines and one unit, and this world shall disappear before thine eyes’- Nostradamus

Regina sat staring at these words, on her otherwise blank computer screen.

“The world was to end in 1999. We know, that for once, the French guy missed the bull’s eye because today we are in the 21st century, seven years into the second millennium after Christ.” She said to herself.

She heads for the kitchen, makes herself a hotdog with extra mustard sauce and returns back to her room.

She stares out of the window to check up on the gory details. She sees nothing though. A clear road with not a soul.

Suddenly a genome flies near her and stops so close to her that she feels the stench from his big mouth.

“So what have you brought Ruck?”

“London, Egypt, Mumbai, New York is already done. You are the last one.”

“Not yet. So lemme give you a goodbye kiss”

The lips rub against each other and he falls to the ground with a loud thud.

She maximizes the volume of the music system that starts blaring- ‘I wanna break free’ and mumbles “But I don’t.”

She gets back to the computer screen while biting into the last bite of the hotdog and types in a hurry.

‘May the human race see good sense the next time. Amen!’

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I am an optimist but there are reasons that definitely make us think- Multiplication of population and the resulting congestion, global warming and many more. U.S.A possesses enough nuclear weapons to blow up our earth sixteen times. Will we ever be able to take a U- Turn? Try thinking of a better title