The Pentacle Virus drove Man to the
brink of extinction. Humanity is determined
to complete the job.
The
Pentacle Virus had the ability to infect almost every living warm-blooded
animal. It spread across the planet in the early summer of 2016. I am not sure how long the disease spread and
wreaked havoc but communication lines went down by mid-summer, the world wide
web would no longer connect around the same time. The news networks and radio stations were off
the air shortly thereafter with their final broadcasts being confirmation of
the death of POTUS and the complete breakdown of the federal government. All
social services, including the armed forces were shut down.
The
world was thrown into the dark ages and the poor souls who contracted the new
Pentacle strain had little to no hope of survival. The vast majority who caught
it, died within a twelve to thirty-six-hour period; regardless of health, age,
gender, or race. Those that survived the
thirty-six-hour period, in general, were stricken with continuous pneumonia
type symptoms that eventually caused the individual's death. Most within two weeks.
In the
early days of Pentacle awareness, conspiracy theorist blamed the government,
accusing them of building biological weapons. If they did, they forgot to
develop the antidote first.
The
Muslims blamed the infidels, the Vatican declared it was “Wrath of God”, and
atheist supremist blamed all society for global warming.
Personally,
I think the Good Lord and Mother Nature had had enough of the parasitic homo
sapien ruining the planet.
Doyle Weldon Knight, is a novelist, short story author, occasional poet, and subsea engineering consultant that lives in central Louisiana. Thirty-seven-years with a beautiful southern belle, daddy to three admirable citizens, and a forty-year career in the oilfield industry. A life-long reader, with a preference for the macabre and supernatural, in 2016, he discovered writing. Becoming semi-retired in 2018, he pursued bringing his writing to the reading world. His short story, The Matriarch Sin, can be found in, Halloween Party 2019, by Devil's Party Press. His self-published debut novel, The Flip, a dystopian, post-pandemic story of survival, was released August 2020 in eBook and Paperback, and can be found in most online book retailers. His first full length novel, The Flip, was released August 1, 2020.
I sat so merry in my abode
Loving hands around me
I dreamt of such glorious days
One day i would see
I remember the day I left
My room
I closed the door behind me
One quick look again
Then walked away
The room which would always remind me
The glorious days I had dreamt
I did merrily spent
How little did I then know
Life turns on a dime
My room is now not as it was
When I closed the door
Behind me
My room now is a prison
But not how one would invision
It is one of sorrow and grief
Sadness burns into the bare walls
I catch my breath
And weep
Why did thou'st doth betray?
The room which once embraced me
I ask with riddled heart
Jagged and torn
Which wicked riddles have I thus sought?
I sit still
I am now my room
No dreams as once before
I age before my open door
In my room long ago
I sat merrily in my loving abode
Loving hands did hold me
All gone
My room and myself
Now one
Two thrust to be together
Forever
Alone