PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here.
Nowhere is safe. Take this street, before the outbreak the snow clumped together like fluffy white clouds, no cracks or potholes in the road, the sidewalk smooth. The avenue a haven for life. The building now rubble, one of the first to go. Cars nothing more than burnt out rust pits. The air no longer crisp and fresh, reflecting the death and destruction. Decay from the fallout spread with death. A lesson in history should have been a warning. The elite blinded by greed; it won’t happen to them. Their streets fell as victims like the rest. Zombies the perfect equal opportunist ever created.
I liked the “no man is an island” theme
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If one goes down, we all go down…
Thanks Neil
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elite blinded by greed…nice!
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True!
Thanks Neel
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I do enjoy a little post-apocalyptic misery, especially when it is equally distributed.
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Dog eat dog world!
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I too saw the photo and imagined it destroyed. Just no zombies for me, too scary! 🙂
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It’s a nice looking street, it begs to be trashed and put through hell – in fiction only of course lol
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Dear Tanille,
No one thinks it can happen to them. It can. It does. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. One of our species biggest down falls.
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The only way used to up. How things change.
Keith’s Ramblings is a click away!
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Absolutely.
Thanks Keith!
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No-one is spared a visit from the grim reaper, I guess.
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No, we’re all equal in that regard.
Thanks Sandra!
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Death is the great equalizer. A small suggestion: I think your last sentence would have been more clear with, perhaps, a colon after the word “Zombies.” I had to go back and read it again to figure out what you were saying.
Your descriptive writing was spot on. I could feel the desolation.
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Thanks for that. I’ll take a look.
Sad world to live in this one!
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Zombies don’t discriminate between the rich or the poor. They just want brains! An eerie story nicely written.
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I would hate to live in this world.
Thanks Brenda!
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Wonderful descriptions, Tannille. in the end, we are all one and the same, aren’t we?
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When the crunch comes I believe so. Our small world has a knock on effect.
Thanks Dale!
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There’s justice in death–and in zombies. Great atmosphere, scary and hopeless.
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Not Micheal Jackson’s thriller that’s for sure lol.
Thanks for the kind words 😀
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Yeah, what good’s your bank balance now, zombie scum (thwack) 🙂
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Yeah it’s about the biggest explosives now! Watch the fat cats run.
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Death and time spare no one. Be it rich or poor, old or young, man or woman.
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No words ring more true.
Thanks Abhijit!
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I liked how you used fallout, as in nuclear, to describe the devastation, and saved the actual cause of the damage for the end.
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I wasn’t too sure where I was going with the story. Love when it just comes together 😀.
Thanks Andy!
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Death is the great equalizer… or so they say.
Good story!
-Rachel
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Thanks Rachel!
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Well done. Zombies as equal opportunity eaters.
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They just want flesh, any will do…
Thanks Sascha!
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Sad, isn’t it?
That history repeats itself.!
That we don’t learn!
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A few ruin it for the majority. Insane!
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Yep!👌
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Blast those zombies…. Enjoyed.
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Now you’re talking.
Thanks Roger!
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I would never have thought of zombies & that’s partly why I like this piece. It’s super creative & out of the box & I love that kind if writing.
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It’s interesting, the prompts I find most challenging usually end up out there…
Thanks Lisa.
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I wonder it we are not all zombies letting greed stay in power.
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I wondered if anyone would read “zombies” as a metaphor. 😀
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Better watch out, those Zombies really love to paint the town red.
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