Short Story - Affluence 1

Written by: Harry Kim

Type: Short story

Affluence

Prologue

Everyone knows who I am and where I live. It might sounds little strange, but it's true. They all stare me with a strange look and talk behind me. But there was one event that changed my entire life...

Ch 1

I was just a small boy who everyone hated. I didn't know why they abhorred me, but as I grew up, I knew why and felt betrayal to everyone.

It's very hard for me to remember my childhood, but if there is something that I remember clearly, it's the fact that I never saw my mom. Maybe that was the reason of everyone staring at me with a abominable face. Even my father, the one who always has to be at my side, looked at me as I'm an mutated creature. When I figured out why everyone neighbors including my relatives had looked at me with the strange face, I was full of fury and agony, I had to find a way to get out of this situation.

Ch 2

When I found out the reason of strange look, I was 15, the age of wandering. When I found out the reason, everything I had believed so far is destroyed. Everyhing that I have believed about my mother, my father, and my past.. They were gone, no they were all false. I had to find a way to prove that it wasn't my fault.

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Short Story - The Dark Future 5

Written by: Harry Kim
Type: Diary type short story

September 16, 2025

It's still September 16. I started to walk toward the museum and while I was walking, something caught my eyes. It was a huge pyramid made out of glass and metal. It was also destroyed but not completely. Since the pyramid was also covered with ivies, I coulnd't see it clearly, but I saw something moving inside the pyramid. After staring the pyramid, I walked into the museum. Couldn't believe that it was 6 P.M. when I entered the museum. Everything was starting to get dark, I couldn't see anything. I couldn't bring lamp from the camp since it's very invaluable and hard to find. Suddenly, I saw perceived something moving in the dark museum. One, two, three, no maybe more about 30, I wasn't able to count exact number of them, but I was able to know that they were coming closer to me. I took out small knife to protect my self and started to brandish it everywhere. And suddenly I heard something exploding and fainted. When I woke up, I was in the middle of crowd. They were all wearing mask and holding rifle on their hand. After some minute, they saw me and started to wake me up and made me to stand up. When I stood up, I knew where I was. I was inside the glass pyramid.

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Short Story - The Dark Future 4

Written by: Harry Kim
Type: Diary type short story

September 16, 2025


The day changed, but still, everything was same. Everything was quiet and couldn't find anything moving around me, can't even find small insects moving around. It was too quiet, sometimes silence is a sign of the outbreak of a big incident, but who knows. The only sound that I was able to hear around was the wind wafting around the streets. All of the debris of buildings were covered with ivy and trees those grew too much. Anyway, it was a good idea that I brought compass with me from the underground camp. I started walk toward south. I don't know how long I've been walking on the ghost street. I was walking without thinking, I had no idea where I am going and where I am at now. I just walked and walked southward and I suddenly halted, there was a familiar building standing in front of me. It was destroyed but still able to notice what that building was in the past. The building that used to represent this place long time ago, before the Matola breaks out, it was Louvre Museum. After a long time of thinking, I decided to go into the Museum to see if inside is also destroyed.

And this is how everything started...

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Short Story - The Dark Future 3

Written by: Harry Kim

Type: Diary type short story

September 15, 2025

The day had changed, it’s morning now. I only know that it is morning now, I don’t know what the weather is and how does outside look like. I had to climb a ladder to go to the ground level, after 5 minutes of doing that, I finally reached for the door that connects outside and underground. The door was rusty and full of dust. I tried to open the door by pushing it for more than 5 minutes, and later figured out that I had to pull the door, not push the door. When I opened the metal door, the sunlight started to run into my face. I couldn't open my eyes well; I had to close half of my eye in order to walk outside. Although my eyes were half closed, there was one thing that I was able to notice, it was very quiet outside. I wasn't able to hear anything not even bird tweeting. After some minutes when I became familiar with strong sunlight, I opened my eyes. And what I saw was very surprising. Everything was devastated; the only thing that was standing was a flag pole with flag, all reaped and dirty, hanging powerlessly on the pole. I lost hope, I actually expected there to be at least some people or corpses of dead people, but I saw nothing I only saw the debris of edifices, the edifices those used to represent the power and the wealth of our country, and grass and trees grew too much so that it gave the feeling of Amazon forest. I didn't know where I am and where to go; there was nothing to tell me the address of the places and the directions.

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Short Story - The Dark Future 2

Written by: Harry Kim

Type: Diary type short story

The Dark Future

Chapter 1

In February 14 there was an Ebola outbreak in Western Africa. Many people were killed and infected with this pandemic. Governments of four countries from where Ebola had found for the first time started to stop people from going out and coming in to their countries in order to stop the spread. However, by some reason Ebola started to be spread out to other countries. The whole world is becoming under control of Ebola. As people investigate money and put efforts in developing a vaccine, Ebola started to be mutated and ended up with creating new disease that can genocide people deadly and quickly and started to bring another catastrophe on earth. Scientists started to call this disease Matola.

May 25, 2025

Many years have been passed, now it’s 2025 but still there is no vaccine developed for Matola. Scientists had announced in the WHO meeting that vaccine that is being tested recently is only effective for animals not for humans. However it’s strange how none of the doctors and scientists were killed by Matola since 2025, maybe a government is lying to the citizens. 11 years had passed since first Matola was discovered, for 11 years people had lived without the vaccine. Now people are even afraid of drinking water and eating food although the government had said that Matola never can be transferred by water it seems like no one trusts the government now. The things the government is continuously saying through the radio are: “Stay at the base camp never leaves the camp” and “Another trial for creating vaccine had failed”. So far Matola had decimated about half of the world’s population. There are many people in the black market to get blood of people who recovered from Matola. There are still many people ignoring the blood type and just injecting blood into their body. This is getting more serious.

September 14, 2025

I’m Rafael, I had survived for 11 years without vaccine, after surviving for 11 years, I started to feel Matola as nothing but a small disease because I`m still alive. I had two friends who were working in the laboratory. One died while he was researching for the vaccine in Liberia, and the other one is still working at the lab. The one who died is Tom and the other one is Lucas. I tried multiple times to make a liaison with Lucas. However, I wasn't able to contact. I’m currently hiding in the underground base camp, I have no idea of how long I should be staying here, and maybe I have to be staying at this murky place without seeing the light of the rest of my life from now. I felt miserable when I started to think of not seeing the outside world and living here like a prisoner. So I decided to go outside to the outer world to see what is going on.

September 14, 2025

At night I heard government telling us to stay at the base camp again. I’m disgusted with this repeating announcement. I finished packing my bag and decided to take enough amount of sleep because I might have to walk a lot. At about 1 O’clock, I woke up because I was thirsty, and I heard a new voice from the radio. It was saying “Get prepared for the last march” it wasn't clearly audible but it was saying something similar to that.

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Short Story - The Dark Future 1

Written by: Harry Kim

Type: Diary type short story

The Dark Future

In February 14 there was an Ebola outbreak in Western Africa. Many people were killed and infected with this pandemic. Governments of four countries from where Ebola had found for the first time started to stop people from going out and coming in to their countries in order to stop the spread. However, by some reason Ebola started to be spread out to other countries. The whole world is becoming under control of Ebola. As people investigate money and put efforts in developing a vaccine, Ebola started to be mutated and ended up with creating new disease that can genocide people deadly and quickly and started to bring another catastrophe on earth. Scientists started to call this disease Matola.

Prologue

It has been 200 years since Matola was found. Also about 30 years since the vaccine was widely diffused around the world. My name is Harry, and I found a very old looking book from the old house near the place with big metal door. Everyone from this huge city doesn't want to even try to open that door. Anyway I brought this antique book to home and started reading it.

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