The Many Ramblings of K. A. Webb

On her way to her room she passed her dad's study. The door was closed, so she opened it and walked into the room. At first the only thing Kimberley could do was stare at everything they were going to lose. No electricity meant they had no electronics at all and the computer that sat on the desk was going to be useless. There would be no Internet connection, which meant the world was going to be a very large place once again. It was something they were all going to have to get used to, because they’d always lived in a world full of technology and food that was readily available at the local supermarket. On the desk, next to the computer, she found three envelopes. Seeing them made her smile, even though tears were welling up in her cheeks. He'd left a letter for each of his children. She picked them up. Kimberley's letter was on top. After looking at it for a few moments she put it into her back pocket with the other two. She didn't want to read it yet. Her choices were made, with the help of both her brothers, and she was happy with them. If her dad suggested anything she knew she would feel like she had to do as he suggested, so she simply wasn't going to read it until they were all settled in at her nan's house. She had one last look around the room and then left everything that represented the life she’d had before behind.



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Collection: Kim's Earth, Status: Complete, Word Count: 3000 - 4000

Kimberley knew there was something wrong when no one answered the phone. Without stopping to think about what the repercussions might be she walked home. It had been three days, three very long days, since both her parents had been given the new contraceptive injection and she couldn't help worrying. The World Government said it was safe, that it had been through thorough and rigorous testing, but no one really believed them. Not after what they'd done before. As they had lied then it would be easy enough for them to lie again, which was why her parents had hidden her away in an unused nuclear bunker before the injections. They'd been fined, but they wanted her to be safe. They needed her to be safe, because she had two younger brothers who would have to be looked after if something happened to their parents, although that hadn’t been something they’d thought too much about in advance.



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Collection: Kim's Earth, Status: Complete, Word Count: 1000 - 2000

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Kimberley knew there was something wrong when no-one answered the phone. Without stopping to think about what the repercussions might be, she walked home. It had been four days since both her parents had been given the new contraceptive injection and she couldn't help worrying. The world government had said it was safe, that it had been through thorough and rigorous testing, but no one really believed them. Not after what they'd done before. As they had lied then it would be easy enough for them to lie again, which was why her parents had hidden her away in an unused nuclear bunker before the injections. That had cost them money as they'd been fined but they wanted her to be safe. They needed her to be safe too because she had two younger brothers who would have to be looked after if something happened to their parents.

 

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