First Day

He was nervous.
The first day was always like this. So many new people to meet, so much to remember. He hated it.
As he stood in a queue for dinner it became too much for him and let loose a long golden stream into his trousers.
"Oh my God!" someone shrieked.
"New boy's pissed himself!" laughed someone else.
It wasn't the ideal start to his time in the office.

Game Over

He hammered the buttons and moved the joystick as he watched the character on the screen in front of him execute some fantastic martial arts moves and despatch yet another opponent.
He had made it to the final level. There was just one more fighter to beat.
The opponent was revealed and they were much bigger than the character he was controlling.
This would take some skill.
No sooner had he started to think this and the giant martial artist had pulverised him.
GAME OVER showed on the screen.
A long knife shot out from behind the screen and entered the boy's chest before twisting and retracting.
The owner of the arcade appeared, dragged the boy out to the back room where all the others had been placed and instructed one of his operatives to mop up the blood.

Cable Car

The mountains were covered in crisp, white snow and they were going to be perfect for today's skiing. The sun was shining and they were all ready.
They sat in the cable car, holding their skis and chatting excitedly.
"How long till we're at the top?"
"About five minutes."
With that the cable car stopped.
"What's happening?"
"No idea. We'll probably be moving again soon."
"I hope so," said one of them.
He looked out of the window and saw that they were suspended over a deep valley.
There was a peculiar sound and they felt momentarily weightless as the cable snapped, before they plummeted downwards, ending the trip all too soon.

Not Long Left

The children sat in the classroom, staring at the clock.
It was 3:40pm on a Friday and they'd long abandoned the pretence of doing any work. There were five minutes until the weekend started and thoughts had drifted towards sleeping late, playing in the park and watching TV.
The clocked ticked onwards. It would soon be time.
The classroom door opened and a stranger with a gun changed everyone's plans.

Bald

It started in his 20s and he'd noticed his forehead seemingly becoming larger. By the time he was in his 30s his head hair had almost completely disappeared. By his 40th birthday most of his body hair had also vanished.
Now his eyebrows and eyelashes had also gone. He was totally smooth everywhere.
All except for his ears and nose from which there grew huge bunches of grey which grew back within a day or two of removal. Nature's cruel joke.

Eruption

The gods were unhappy. The mountain that watched over them was making angry noises. They had sacrificed everything they usually dead to halt the anger - goats, cows, virgins, horses. None of these helped and now smoke was rising from it.
The villagers stood and watched as it began to spew fire and rivers of red ran down towards their huts.
They knew not why the mountain was angry and made no attempt to escape, accepting their punishment with relative ease.

After It All

Once it was over it should have been over completely, but that wssn't the way it played out.
Some had been unaffected by it, and if there had been any scientists left they'd have struggled to offer up any kind of explanation for it.
Those who remained would have no proper life as we knew it as a result and they were destined to live the rest of their days in a shell of the former world.
Not that they would notice. They lived such an isolated exsistence that they would never know what had happened in the world outside of their small patch of jungle.
They would never know the damage others had done.