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Fort Bliss: A Short Story

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Sitting at his desk joe was thinking about what he was doing with his life, and how he could have screwed it so bad he was demoted from working in DC to Fort Bliss it was an embarrassment. Joe got and went to the fridge to grab a water then BOOM Joe ran to the window and saw a nuclear mushroom cloud them as he was engulfed in a fireball he shoots out of his bed drenched in sweat, he looks at the clock it reads 1:56 AM he needed to go to work in 3 hours. Joe goes down down stairs his wife following him tying her robe as she goes “Joe are you alright this is the 2nd time this week” she asks in a concerned tone Joe tells her in a sleepy manor while starting to borrow a pot of coffee “it’s nothing I’ve gest been having nightmares that's all it …show more content…

Joe woke up on the floor next to the fridge his right cheek slashed open do to the broken glass Joe stood up to see that everyone was dead except for Ethan Ethan’s leg was broken Joe throw him over his shoulders letting go of any vendettas and ran to his car to try to get to downtown El Paso and to a bomb shelter speeding getting almost 150 mile away from the bass an other bomb dropped destroying it and the shock wave throwing the car forward. Ethan shaking Joe trying to wake him up as Joe woke up he grabbed Ethan and they started limping to a brick building in the distance and then one more bomb dropped and Joe was engulfed in a fireball him feeling a each cell being destroyed him dying in the most excruciating pain known to man. Joe shoots up out of the water the woman standing at the dore holding a towel Joe take is drying his hair “thanks” Joe said panting from a shortness of breath Joe got dressed and left thinking about what he just saw. When he got home Kaela asked “how did it go” “it went fine I sat in a bathtub for an hour and slept it was the most fun I have ever had ” Joe sarcastically said. That night they ate steak with a side of green beans and mashed potatoes and Joe had no night mares it seems that the therapy worked and this went well for 3 weeks. Joe woke up made a pot of coffee and went to work said hi to roma as he went in and ssat down at his desk and started to talk to marisae. “I need some water” Joe said with a dry mouth “get me one to” Marisae told Joe as he walked away as he grabbed the 2 bottles of water BOOM the nukes hit, but this time it was real the constant pondering and talking and seeing this event made it a reality for Joe but not the rest of us. As Joe woke up his cheek slashed open everyone but him and Ethan dead Ethan’s

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