The Rift

By Kaiden G. Stone


It happened with out any prior warning, apart from a small earthquake that shook buildings whilst people were still asleep, completely unaware of what was happening in the world.

He turned on the T.V. hoping to catch something on the local news as he did every morning, as if he was on automatic pilot. He switched on the kettle then put two bagels in the toaster.

He sat down in his snug leather arm chair and ate his breakfast; he had been watching the recent activity on
the local news networks, but without really taking anything in…until now.

The newsman's report spoke of an extremely freak weather phenomenon, the likes of which had never been seen in human recorded history.

News cameras on location near New York harbour were focused on a cloud mass so dark and dense, that nothing could be seen through it, and it was the size of the entire length of at least 15 American football stadiums.

The larger the mass grew the more fearsome it became, as earth shattering electrical storms triggered the ground to open up, swallowing entire buildings in the process.

At that precise moment Michael Borden's life suddenly became more precious then ever, as the world was thrown into perpetual darkness.
So stunned by what he was seeing, he leapt up knocking his coffee and bagels over that were on the side table next to him.

The TV's screen suddenly became a gnarled pattern of fuzz and static as the signal became weaker.
He pressed every button on the remote control, as if expecting it to suddenly go right.

All he was presented with however, was a blank screen, until an alert began as a public announcement was played declaring a state wide emergency warning.

It was then when he realised that something wasn't right.He would soon realise that this day would eventually become the darkest day of his life.

The warning delivered a message to any one that had the luck to survive; it was a hard to listen to chilling message that made the hairs on the back of Braden Collins's neck stand up.

As the broadcast, played out.
he heard the shrill and ear piercing screams of people in fear, in his neibourhood. He could hear the voices of children shouting for their parents; other voices were of people warning of something so horrific and dark that it caught the human race off guard.

He couldn't face listening to any-more. So he turned off the T.V. and looked outside.

It was then he realised just how real the situation was.
© Kaiden G. Stone