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Where We Stay May 18th, 2008
They had taken refuge in the only place in the factory city
no longer hostile to them: the ventilation.
For a while they lived that way in the mile-wide tunnel, the
automated systems of the factory unaware or uncaring of their
presence there. They built homes and started families.
There was enough fauna and flora in the tunnel to sustain them and
they could even venture to the end of the shaft to bask in the sun.
Even so they had a strange pallor that came from spending days out of
the sun’s sight. They thrived and increased their numbers
Then they heard the roar. They had become used to the constant
rumble of city-sized machinery, but this was different, this was
angry, threatening, close.
The temperature in the tunnel rose and some of the more paranoid
began to feel fear. They fled and were mocked.
Until the flames spun through the tunnel, reducing every building and
living thing to ash to be blown out of the end the ventilation shaft.
The factory would tolerate no obstructions.
by William Couper
Tags: fire, machines, post-apocalypse, tunnels
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