Fiction | Writing Prompts | Dystopian

The Relentless Villain of Your Future

He’s driven by a vision of the world to come…

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This story is for Zane Dickens’s challenge: Writing Challenge: Villains to Vanquish. You can find it here. The idea is to “inspire any worthy writer to pull pen from a stone and rise to vanquish them… enough that a writer can take it and run with it.” All villains will be added to an Official Microcosm Villains List to be linked to from future writing exercises and prompts.

Hawk Malkin. Your mortal enemy, whether you know it or not. He will kill you and everyone you care about.

Or at least — everyone that you have left.

Hawk was my high school friend. Believe me, he doesn’t look down on the surviving civilians of Earth. He doesn’t even enjoy the killing. Never has. But he’s got a mission. And his pursuit of that mission is relentless.

File on Hawk Malkin:

Name: Zachary ‘Hawk’ Malkin.
Age: 32
Height: 6’10”
Weight: 225lb
Occupation: Outlaw/criminal.
Aims: Reduce the population of the Earth to below one thousand.