30 Days Second Semester: 8, Going In, Misc Apoc

[aldersprig]

For the 30 Days Meme Second Semester, for the prompt "8) write a scene in the middle of a novel called 'The Long, Dirty Afterwards.'"

Actually random apoc. In re. wordcount, the actual "excerpt" is 250 words. ;-)
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They had defeated the alien invasion and won back their planet.

…Now all they had to do is clean up the mess.The All-Counter* read

Comments

[rix_scaedu]

Won back their plant or their planet?

Either could work but they would be very different worlds...

[kelkyag]

I'll second the vote for "planet".

Maybe a non-U.S. city in the third footnote, unless being U.S.-centric is deliberate?

[aldersprig]

It's planet, *facepalm*

Good point on the non-us cities. (disaster movies in the US always blow up Paris..)

[kelkyag]

Or Tokyo!

[eseme]

Oh uck. Guess they found the trap, with a rattie in it.

I like the idea of the All-Counter a lot.

[aldersprig]

*grin* me, too!