One Second After (After #1)

by William R. Forstchen

We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them. If only

We were so damn vulnerable, so damn vulnerable, and no one did the right things to prepare, or prevent it. “We’re back a hundred and fifty years.” “No, not a hundred and fifty years,” John sighed. “Make it more like five hundred. People alive in 1860, they knew how to live in that time; they had the infrastructure. We don’t. Turn off the lights, stop the toilets from getting water to flush, empty the pharmacies, turn off the televisions, and we don’t know what to do.”

“We were like sheep for the slaughter then.”