Washington DC: A Short Story

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Fallout A grey haze, mixed with brown mist and a tinge of yellow. That’s what the land looks like in the age ahead. Depressing, desolate, dreadful, and even demeaning in most places, the shattered corpse of Washington DC was afflicted with much the same disease as the rest of America. Other cities like Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Las Vegas have had a nasty dose of the irradiated scourge as well, some less than others, but still deadly. Off in the distance the sound of a giant scorpion fighting with a pack of over-sized mole rats could be heard rustling in the stale breeze. Vase Vintage peered into the dark night sky of Post-Apocalyptic. Washington DC was once a place of disputes, commerce and law making, but the law had little to do with the roaring wastelands ahead. What did the world really value now? Had the planet’s nations felt so jaded that they burned the earth to cinders? Perhaps, they did, after all the most …show more content…

3-Dog got all the scoops on DC." Sarah Lyons said as she oiled the gears on her heavy-plated Power-Armor. "My father told me about him. I sometimes wonder if he knows about the Garden of Eden Creation Kit. That guy has many informants; still, he does preach the word righteously." With blond-ish hair and a dark ethnic complexion, Sarah Lyons was the daughter to a very influential elder in the Brotherhood of Steel Knights. As it was, there was much expected of her. It was the proverbial problem of filling in the shoes of a great relative. She was strong and knew weapons very well – inside and out. As the tunes of Galaxy Radio belched out from a makeshift radio-box, Sarah tapped her feet to her favorite song. "Hey, I love this tune, Let’s Go Sunning - now that’s a big band boogie." Lyons remarked. "It keeps my mind thinking of warm yellow sun and away from this dreary mud hole. When I was a kid, my dad took me to a place with real trees. It was so green and lush, and sunny too. He called it the Oasis. Did I ever tell you that,