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Assingment 2: How should I finish this piece?

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Just looking for some ideas as I don't know where to go with it.

An inkblot shadow was cast over the Earth. Blackness shed through the sky, rapidly casting over land and sea until in sight they were no more. Life was obliterated aside from splintered brown roots and bleeding memories of the past. Stone turned to dust, which sweltered across the planet’s surface by means of empty winded gusts. Void surged and modern human civilisation collapsed into individuals far and few.

A sharp sound of footsteps on gravel darted within the veil, echoing between barren land and desolate sky. Wright stumbled cautiously along the ground, perpetually reaching his hands out to feel for obstructions. His coarse hair and loose clothes tugged on the zephyr as he moved, while Wright’s sharp breaths expelled in rhythm to his steps.

He stopped curtly and attempted to pluck a consumable from his backpack. After a short struggle he came to the conclusion that he had no food left. Wright formed an invisible frown and a silent yet equally dismal sigh.

The air began to settle cool, so he decided to light a match. Wright’s hand savoured the moment of dipping into his left pocket and retrieving the divine container. He slid it open slowly, experiencing every grain and speck between the box’s two components.

Wright’s simian limbs lit the match. The aura flickered into existence, providing a reassuring comfort, as photons’ sanctuary shrouded him. Light had become his obsession; its previous abundance rendered it worthless, however the glow could now be relished. Wright’s heart accelerated in beating and his eyes widened upon the present tilt of his head. He hastily gathered a bundle of dry roots and dropped the match onto them.

The fire spread slowly, engulfing the fuel one root at a time. Glowing ashes spat upwards from Wright’s structure, while the remains curled and crackled. Brightness’ presence spread, laying a euphoric orange upon the cold gravel. Wright’s face lit up as the fire. He gathered more wood, slid it onto the campfire cautiously and sat on the ground. The thin atmosphere of flowing dust and sand parted around him. He closed his eyes, feeling the warmth displace his remorse with tranquillity.

Wright reflected on the near past.

He recalled the beauty of the sun, and the infinite possibilities that it held. He remembered the vibrant towns and cities that his kind once inhabited. He thought of humanity’s politics and laws, and then how they collapsed without Sol’s gift. Fresher images of fire appeared; burning buildings and corpses. His memories were accompanied by the campfire’s vivid crackling and snapping.

Wright recalled voices of friends and family, then of screaming and fear.
He opened his eyes and gazed straight into his lit fire. An illusionary cloud rose from the flames and flashing nostalgia reminded him of the missiles and gunfire. He briskly turned his head and stared into the darkness, which surrounded his fire like a monochrome prison. The gloom reminded him of the worldwide nuclear fallout, while eagerly provoking more memories of radiation and deceasing innocence.

“In this new world”, he thought, “light is the abnormality. It is a cancer on this otherwise oil-slick smooth hell.” His thoughts washed away and his mind cleared. Wright looked up to the cogent sky and viewed faint celestial bodies. They were permanently visible without the sunlight.

Wright considered once more; in this case that his woeful existence was infinitesimal when compared to that of the universe. The concept helped him to ignore his grinding hollow stomach, and malignantly noxious sores.

TL;DR - The sun ceased emitting light. Everyone dies due to riots and nuclear fallout and things. A guy (Wright) is alive, he sits by a fire and thinks about the past.

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