Summer Is Your Last Chance

Contributed by Dan Lester on 23/07/09

I look at the reflection, but don’t recognise it as my own face. It’s too distorted, parts large and distended and others small and withered. I stare at it for a while, trying to reconcile it with the image I have of myself.

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I run my hand through my hair and most of it comes out. Most of what’s left anyway. I considered wearing a wig but I couldn’t find any, and at this point it would only make me stand out.

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Our stocks of tinned food have almost run out. I don’t know what we’ll do after they’re gone, but we may not have to face that problem. Everything I eat has to be liquidised first, now that my teeth are gone.

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Every night I have the same dream, the same image- the mushroom cloud blooming over the horizon. I seem to be sleeping more than ever, often up to fifteen hours a day. It will be my birthday in three weeks. If I last that long.

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  1. I think you’ve put this together very nicely. The title ties everything together, and lets the reader know — or at least allows them to figure out — what happened. “Summer is Your Last Chance” thus takes on a whole new meaning as you see the frenzied ads, (floating in the ether of a dead net, existing in the memory of the protagonist,it’s up to the reader to decide). The structure is spare, balanced, to the point. A good post-Apocalyptic tale.

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  2. Now is already our past and the future only a blink away.Make the most of now and don’t worry about the future.
    I feel better now

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  3. With Dan’s permission, I am TOTALLY going to leave any spam comments that turn up on this post… it seems somehow fitting…

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