Children of the Blue Flower
A 2,200 word story
The food and water are all gone now. It is time to leave my hiding place. I am alive. After what has happened, I am alive. That’s all I know, I don’t know the time or the day or the month. I think it must be February. I know the year, 2037. That’s two things I know, I must learn more. As I climb the steep steps of the cellar stairs and return to the house, I am surprised by the…