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A Thought In Musing

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A Thought In Musing

This is a writing prompt exercising the ability to focus a message from two paragraphs to six words. I strongly encourage all writers to attempt this at least once to open their own dialogues. Please enjoy

With a burning fire, the most intense of infernos shall consume the sky. Blackness will fall upon the ground and smother it in ash. The wonders of man will crumble and wither. When the last of the flames have burned, nothing will be left to show for man’s greatness. The beasts will die; slowly at first for the eaters of the earth will starve before the eaters of flesh. As they dwindle in number, the creatures will turn to man for help: man has no answer to give.

Of all the beings that exist within the world, none shall be safe from the apocalypse. The souls of men will wander aimlessly, for they shall have no place to belong. And when the fires die out, when the flames of man are gone, only darkness shall remain. In this darkness, nothing will be known, and so the world shall tremble. And so the world shall end.

The flames of death shall burn across the lands, all of existence shall be consumed. Beasts and man, nothing is safe from this inferno. Everything shall be reduced to ash, until the world is empty and dark. In the last moments of man, all souls will wander, and roam the land without hope to be found. For in the darkness, the world shall die.

The fire shall consume all of existence in a blazing inferno. None shall survive, save the souls of man to linger forever lost and hopeless. The dark shall devour the remnants of light as all the world falls silent.

From fire shall darkness kill hope.

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