Dear Friday Fictioneers,
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Shalom,
Rochelle
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PHOTO PROMOT Ā© Fleur Lind
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Word Count: 100
ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE
Couched in complacency, we never saw it coming.
The first few hours werenāt bad. We figured the electric company would remedy the problem while we enjoyed sandwiches by candlelight. Breaking from social media to actually communicate was nice.
After a month we were still in darkness and the grocery shelves were bare.
My car with its solid-state circuit for a brain is a useless hunk of metal.
Local doctors are at a loss to treat the simplest ailments.
Real books are in demand.
Weāre learning to live off the land, but the internet is dead and silence is deafening.