Maheem felt the ground tremble slightly beneath her feet, and felt her ears pop as the air pressure suddenly changed.
The wave came.
A thousand feet high, and travelling at nearly the speed of sound. It washed across the continent, obliterating everything in its path, scouring the rocks of all living things. Picking up trees, mud, rocks, people and animals as it went, it became more a solid than a liquid.
She had just enough time to turn round and scream before it hit her.
Eight days later, the last contact Maheem had with other humans was when the Great Ark nudged her broken body aside, the lifeless child still held tightly in her dead arms, as it ploughed through the churning waters of the Flood.
© Adrian Barnett, 1998
Wasteland Of Wonders
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