Short Story: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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Twigs surrounded the building with fragments of deceased worms embedded within them. The structure of a nest was dangling on a tree, on the verge of collapsing. Minute leaves glue the twigs together, allowing the fragile structure to remain intact. In the middle of this structure was to be found the smallest of schools. Inside was a defeated writer who had been forced to settle to teaching Creative Writing.
Kaspereen was a freshman teacher at Bird’s Nest High School. As he unraveled the window blinds, the yellow shining sun started rising from the ground. It filled the sky with mighty colors of red and splashed the clouds with endless rays of pink. …show more content…

They all dashed towards the Magic School Bus, while darkness continued to consume the atmosphere . Once they all boarded , he flew the bus toward a nearby warehouse.While looking back at his school, he saw the nest fall and collapse to the ground, shattering the structure, and with it Kaspereen’s career. All of a sudden, the temperature dropped, from a scorching 90 Degrees Fahrenheit to a brumal 20 Degrees. Abruptly, a sharp and searing pain emerged from Kaspereen’s arm, as he saw one of his old cuts freeze. His driving was drastically affected by the several cuts. While Kaspereen was struggling to navigating through the pitch dark atmosphere, solar explosions began . Large spherical balls of fire began to descend from the heavens. The comet resembled a dash of glitter on the velvet sky.
Far from earth, there was a dead silence in the nothingness of space. No sound in the vacuum of space other than the collapse of other celestial bodies, including the sun. In the vastness of space, there is a sickness. It has consumed all the living space and replaced it with Dead Space. The sickness had spread. A disease. A cancer. It is inescapable. It consumed the Sun and began to devour the earth. The corruption is in their proxies. None can hide from it. It is hungry, starving for the flesh of our bodies. The Dead Space is expanding, as it consumes the entirety of

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