FF – The Last
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Carole Erdman-Grant.
He’d seen places like this everywhere. After the bombs fell they’d become havens for the depraved, daubed with gang signs making clear their purpose.
He saw no-one, however. He hadn’t for over a year. Violence, starvation and radiation had taken the world.
Many animals had survived the radiation-induced mutations, but he was the last human.
“I am the last! I am the final living… ugh.”
He didn’t even see the huge, mutated claw which took him. The last human he may have been, but there are worse things out there now than humans.
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Karma strike again!
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He really should have kept his mouth shut 🙂
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Hey hi! One human was never going to be much use anyway
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It’s kind of hard to repopulate a species with only one specimen.
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That’ll teach him not to brag!
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Talk about tempting fate!
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Hmmm okay… so if he was the last, who saw what happened and wrote his obituary? 🤔
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Details, details… 🙂
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Maybe the mutants evolve into smarter creatures than we are… after they get over the hunter stage.
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We can hope!
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A world full of giant mutant squirrels would be intriguing. Too bad I’d never live to see it…
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One day squirrels will rule the world though, of course.
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Fate has a wonderful sense of timing… 🙂
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Yep!
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You have quite the imagination!
I can’t imagine anything scarier than humans, but considering this mutant was created by humankind (unnaturally anyways), it is quite easy to see. Perhaps this is the fate that is deserving of our species.
Well done!
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Yep, we’ve had our chance, time for the mutant gerbils to have a go 🙂
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Oh dear..
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Yup 😮
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I cannot even imagine. Scary.
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Very.
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Dear Ali,
Sounds like a horrid place to be. It does make me wonder who’s left to tell the story. 😉 Well done in any event.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
This is where the “mysterious narrator” comes in 🙂 Or maybe this is a retelling from much later by an evolved mutated hamster telling their version of events to all the little hamsters a hamster school!
Ali
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darn, the last human is a goner for sure. so much for bragging rights. 🙂
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He didn’t even get to finish his triumphant brag!
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Let’s hope the mutants are better to the planet than humans. Long live the mutants!
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Yay! Long may they reign!
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As Nobbinmaugh said, hope they are better for the planet. Are there any human mutants?
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There may be… that’s an even scarier thought!
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He may think he’s the last, but who knows how many hid themselves away?
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Exactly. They probably all think they’re the last.
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What a way to go. It sounds as though it was quick, at least. And so the story begins again in the Age of the Mutants. Scary.
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Yes, at least the mutant didn’t play with its food first.
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More frightening than humans? Sheesh!
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Yes, hard to believe.
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I like the word daubed in connection to the grafitti. “The last human he may have been, but there are worse things out there now than humans.” I just hope the mutants are environmentally more attuned.
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I hope so too. Maybe they’ll repair and save the world!
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❤
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Yikes…sounds almost real,Draliman, but at least it’s a colourful ghost town🎨Extra Pawkiss🐾😽💞
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Yes, it’s nice and colourful, that’s the main thing 🙂
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