Title: The End of Elysium
Author: Joe Vasicek
Date: 2021
Publisher: Joseph Vasicek
Quote: "Elysium was a world without pain or suffering...naturally, it was a world that was already dead."
Elysium is the section of a massive bomb shelter, called Gehenna, where people lie around on life support devices sharing happy dreams.
One man in Gehenna, called "Ranger" as a personal name, is "the last Watchman" whose job is to use drones to search for human life on the surface of Earth. When the last drone goes dead, it shows a human footprint on the surface. Does Ranger want to venture out onto the surface? Do the other Gehennans?
This is one of those "what would you do it..." stories that aren't great stories, but can start great conversations and become the prologues to good stories. It stands alone as an e-book; as a traditional book it would have been bound together with other short works, and even as an e-book it comes together with a few nonfiction pieces about the writer and writing process.
If you want a post-apocalyptic prologue for your own story or game, this e-book is for you.
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