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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