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Cure for Humanity
by Nadia Corin

The people trembled in fear as the world began to tighten around them. They felt the quake of continents shifting, being pulled by some indelible force, back to where they originated. Vast cities crumbled, all they thought they’d achieved began turning to dust. Death ran rampant, as if on a mad killing spree, swinging his vocation with complete abandon. The survivors huddled together as all terra firma came to be as one, as if the Earth were resetting itself to its earlier form.

They looked to the tumultuous clouds above for answers. But they gazed in the wrong direction. Mother was undoing what they’d done. She pulled her children back to her, swallowing them by the millions. Those clinging to the world beyond would not last long. Acceptance was the only way to go gracefully.

Those who did would be forgiven for their gluttony and carelessness toward the Mother who birthed them. They would be saved, rather than consumed, and released back onto the new world to fail again.

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Fiction © Copyright Nadia Corin
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