Story - Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Society collapsed. People had said that megacorperations like Wal-Mart would dominate the world. People, for better or worse, were right.

Its hard to find any individual to blame.
Could you blame former president Bush? Most definitely.
How ‘bout 400 years of industrialized pollution? Go for it.
Marketing Bureaucrats? Sunday Paper? China? You Betcha.

A guy I knew before hand had said something about it back when I was working in an office. He was the real Geek; a movie buff I think. He had said something was going to go down. He was talking about an overpopulation of energies in the cosmos or something.

As it were, one Sunday morning, a few Americans woke up, while most of them didn’t. We still don’t know why it happened – exactly when it started or exactly what caused it, but then again our lead scientist wears a colander on his head. His big suspicion is alien influence.

It was a strange world to wake up to, no media telling us what to care about; the hive mind - silenced. I expected chaos storming the streets, riots people with big trucks and bigger guns. There was nothing. Lights stayed on, water was running. Surviving was easy. Life was easy. There were about ten of us in the community, out of a suburb of around 5000.

A few weeks later, I had my first sighting. It was one of the strays that I had seen on the way to work now and again. It was chewing on what looked like a leathery boot, mulling around the old Spaulding fiber factory. Driving by there was something strange about it; it had looked out of place. I took off in a hurry when it got up to chase me. It was about the size of my Saturn. I lost it when I hit the open road. Soon after, I had switched on the radio. I don’t remember much after that.