Dressed and ready for some coffee, Mark took the elevator to the hotel’s meeting room level on the third floor. He found the coffee station and poured himself a cup.
No one was around, which Mark found strange, given that the first meeting was scheduled to start in ten minutes. He took the elevator to the first floor and saw that not a soul was there. No guests, no one at the checkout counter, no doormen.
He stepped outside and saw that the streets were empty of cars and people. Totally alone, Mark wondered where everyone had gone.
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Written for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers. Photo credit: Yvette Prior.
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Good use of the word, alone. But a bit creepy if you imagine the whole thing.
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So where did they go?
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I don’t know. Where do you think they went?
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Sounds terrible to be the last one left after the rapture, but hey, all the coffee you want!
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Very imaginative & well-written.
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Thank you!
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Voting?
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Wouldn’t that be nice!
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Excellent! I tried to think of good reasons people would disappear [didn’t come up with any]. (Other than that, I felt like Sadje… creepy thought.)
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So when did Mark wake from the slumber?
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So it was all a bad dream?
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For me it was..
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…everyone’s gone to the moon, dum de dum……,
Click to read my FriFic tale!
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Love that!
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The obvious question, for me, is why he was left behind?
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Someone commented on the Rapture. So maybe he was not worthy?
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Well, yes, that had crossed my mind, but it didn’t seem you had intended that. He wouldn’t have been completely alone. And being part of the Rapture depends not on worthiness, but on faith. In reality, no one is truly worthy.
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I just got Granonine’s reference (to the left behind series).
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One creepy tale. Maybe he just didn’t get the memo. Nicely done.
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Thanks!
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Where is everyone?
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That’s what he wants to know.
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The possibilities of what happens next are endless! Love it.
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ooh Spooky, I wonder whats happened?
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He’s at the wrong hotel.
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Hotel California?
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