From the Ashes-Capter one

David stood in almost pure darkness, his only light coming from a candle he had saved from the house. Through the warm yellow glow of the candle, he could see the silhouettes of he and his wifes discarded furniture, and the figure of his wife, sitting on an old matress, crying.

He still hadn't had the chance to feel anything about what had happened only two hours before, nor make sense of it, for he was busy pondering two big questions;
a)How had he survived?
b)Why did he survive.

The only sounds in the room were the low sobs of his wife, Alexandra, and that of static, coming from a transistor radio David had thought to bring with him when "it" happened.



The somewhate silence was broken by the weak voice of Alexandra. "What did we do to deserve this? What horrible thing did we do to bring this down on us, the whole town...so many people dead..what did any of us do to deserve it?"


"We, didn't do anything, Alex, it was the government of Shang Sim La who did this to us. They were the only ones who commited any wrong."



As he said that, the reality of their situation set in. The life they had come to know was gone, blown away by a cloud of nuclear smoke.


Thanks everybody for reading. Sorry it's so short, but this is purely to peek everybodies interest, introduce the characters, and to see if I'll continue the story. So please tell me what you think. Thanks!