I’ve reposted this flash more recently!
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Who is Icy Sedgwick?
Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!
You never know what comforts you’ll miss until you no longer have them!
Oh that’s a scary future! Nicely done Icy.
Icy, I missed your writing during my hiatus. Interesting observation of seeing the world through a new, enforced, lens. And those zombie-infested lawns….perhaps zombies graze them like sheep when we’re not looking!
Watching for zombies…
Those apocalypses. They just ruin everything! 😉
I do always wonder what happens for food once the tinned stuff has been finished in apocalypses
marc nash
A weather-related apocalypse is so much more likely than zombies, aliens or sharknadoes. Good one, Icy.
Sounds about right. The weather itself rises up, and blows out all the windows. (But bin bags won’t stand up to that kind of wind, either.)
The dark ages will continue until someone figures out how to make new glass.
I liked this one not just for the immediate details, but the meta level. No glass — which is relatively low-tech to make, if somewhat tricky — means no industry. I got the impression the narrator is focusing on the one detail to make the other, unmentioned details go away.
Simple & very truthful…so right about the wind and the windows…
Like the weather detail in this. Someone will start making glass again.
Yeah, this seems like a much more likely scenario for the end.