Date: 5/6/2020
By juliaaramini
It starts out with a scene of the solar system, which is destroyed. There is no sun, and the only light is from Venus. Planets are spread haphazardly around, many falling apart. Earth is mostly intact but there is no light coming from it. On earth, most cities are so densely packed that there’s zero space between buildings for miles. You have to get on the roofs and get into some through the ceiling. Clearly, the population was huge before whatever happened. There’s also no more sun so the sky is always black. The only light we get is from Venus, which makes the sky a dark navy. Since the earth no longer rotates, the only people that can survive are the ones on the side of earth that faces Venus because the other side is never heated and unbelievably cold. I live on earth. There’s very few people left, but there’s enough to keep a society running. I go to school, which is outdoors. The class is tiny and we all sit at one long table doing work while the teacher talks to us. My best friend kylie normally sits next to me. She and my other good friend toby are in a fight (not sure what it’s about) so if I want to sit with Toby she gets mad and sits on the other side of the table. There’s another girl I’m friends with who’s name I don’t remember and two more girls named sofia and Paris. The government is run by artificial intelligence and is enforced by super big robots. The government is totalitarian and extremely strict. If you are not adhering to societal code you are taken to the other side of the planet to die. For instance, me, kylie, Paris, and sofia were laying on the grass near a park talking, which is not allowed because you could be conspiring against the government. A robot showed up to scan the field to make sure no one was on it, so we had to run as fast as we could to the playground and act like we had been swinging on the swings all along. We hated the government but there was no way our tiny amount of people could overthrow an AI government, so we were stuck. It was either a paranoid, joyless life or death. We were pretty sure that at one point the government had been run by humans who wanted to use AI as a non biased part of government, but it got too smart too fast and no one could control it anymore. At that point I woke up.