REMAINS AFTER THE NUCLEAR WAR

 It’s a world where the Nuclear War has already taken place.

 

The world is affected widely…. All the buildings throughout the planet have been shattered. There are only a few homes you could find that aren’t affected and are standing in one piece.

 

Where I live, in the north of Minnesota… all buildings have been disrupted.. there are always debris falling from the sky… all houses have at-least lost one wall leaving it to be a partially open house. Corporations have been bankrupt and all businesses have shut down.

 

People are radiated… 9 out of 10 people are radiated and are living their last days in debris covered roads. News says that people aren’t going to survive long and that all of us will meet fatality one day, a month later, a year later or a decade later… who knows!

 

Robbers have taken control of the cities… no police can stop them… all the efforts of the government are put to waste. Government doesn’t have the money to pay the police men, the police men don’t take their jobs seriously and robbers have become a common thing due to the fall of economy all over the state.

 

People have moved back to barter system where they trade commodities with commodities.

 

Women generally use sex to trade and to get what they want.

 

There have been a huge emergence of sex workers… cant call them prostitutes because they don’t trade in money, they trade in favours of mercy… like a woman has sex with a government clerk so that she could ask him for a favour to get her electricity bill exempted!

 

Well for those who aren’t women.. its hard on them.

 

There is a bar near my house where I usually went to after work, earlier when I used to work before the you know…!

 

I still go there and have a beer or two every day in exchange of what all assets I have left. Small things like comb, shoe polish, toothpaste, etc that are worth a glass of beer only. The big assets I use to trade for ration and electricity and maybe one day this poverty stricken to all of us would stop if the government delivers what they promised its citizens- new job opportunities like… cleaning of roads, extinguishing fires, working at water supply plants, and building of new homes and buildings. It is said to be starting soon so as to reshape the economy and the diagram of the state.

 

So one day I went there, a small bar located down the street from my home, where there is a brothel attached as well where women could use the barter system sex!

 

And I ordered the usual… and suddenly a girl whom I know comes out of nowhere and sits beside me on the bar stool. This girl is from the same place where we worked before the nuclear war took place. She came and I was watching the news… she was standing right next to me and said “Sad. Another man died due to radiation.” I quickly recognised the voice and we chatted for a while.

 

I always had a crush on this girl but couldn’t tell her, but now that the world is ending I thought I should but then she suddenly had to leave to reach somewhere.

 

I took a deep sigh.. and headed towards the exit of the bar. I was staring at the brothel attached to the bar and because that girl tickled some  nerves within me I decided to go take a look.

 

The brothel was nothing but rooms and rooms without any specific management handling the pay on the counter. There were just rooms, where you would find a woman who will give you her best time in exchange to something valuable you have to give her. This could be electricity bill exemption or even your Rolex!

 

I was feeling uneasy so I decided to go back home instead but just then I saw that girl from the bar and from my work in one of the rooms… I got attracted towards her and tried to ask her what is all this!

 

But before I could say anything, she said “I know you loved me since the very day we met in the office, I liked you too but couldn’t say a word. Now that the world is ending will you do it with me? You don’t have to give me anything for this.”

 

We had our best time together only under sheets. We didn’t look down under each other’s clothes or sheets as it was a request from her! When we got up to dress ourselves…

 

I saw it! I saw it!

 

Her skin was radiated!

 

She keeps on saying that “Im sorry Im sorry, but the truth is I love you.” And starts crying.

 

All I could say to her was that “Don’t worry, stop crying… Its okay to die together in love rather to die alone in pain…”