LJIdol 3 Strikes - Week 11 - “Surgery often looks like murder if you judge it halfway through”

[hwango]

Everything is terrible.

The merciless sun is hotter every year, and catastrophic weather has become commonplace.

Neighbor constantly turns upon neighbor, and violence is everywhere.

Things just can't go on like this.

Then - what new horror is this? Letters of fire in the sky?

"System update in progress. Installing patch ECrE_ME5.0." Below these words, a river of light swiftly flows from one point in the sky towards another.

That doesn't sound so bad. Maybe it's an omen of hope? I turn to the velociraptor next to me and we share a cautious, optimistic smile.

Then the progress bar in the sky reaches the end, and the meteors start to fall.

Comments

[drippedonpaper]

I have felt the same way. I wake up to check the news to see "what fresh hell" we will face today.

The revealing of a velociraptor at the end of your entry surprised me (in a good way. :)

All I can think that, at some point, like many civilizations of the past, soon it will be too much, too far. The people will rise up. It's not the way I want things to go. I would prefer safe and peaceful change.

But I wonder...

Hugs to you. You are not alone in wanting change in our world..

[erulissedances]

Oh my, both of us ended up with references to dinos this time - LOL. I liked your reset a great deal.

- Erulisse (one L)

[banana_galaxy]

I did not expect the dinosaur. I think we need a system update now too. XD

[ofearthandstars]

I would like a system update very much. But not sure about the needed reboot.

I really appreciate that you were able to make a good story out of 8 lines. That's a superpower!

[dadi]

Fitting to these times, alas!

[favoritebean_writes]

As always, your works are brilliant. I really enjoyed your take on the prompt this week.

[mollywheezy]

I loved your meteors/fire letters analogy. And the system update! ;)

[alycewilson]

OMG, this made me laugh out loud! Gallows humor can be so healing.