Thought provoking fiction.


	Thought provoking fiction.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/59283fca-d836-485c-a53d-88beef97be71/3707B0F9-774A-4F8D-A7D7-3BE6B7CA0559/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/" href="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/" style="font-size: 11px;">fiction.theshapeofdays.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/"><H1><A href="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">Humanity’s Final Message to Those Who Would Come After</A></H1>
<H2>Fiction by Jeff Harrell</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">We could have seen it coming a hundred years ago if we’d only paid attention. But we were ignorant, arrogant, foolish.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">Today every school child — all ninety-seven thousand of them, worldwide — knows the story. Or at least parts of it.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">The big picture is that we’re all dying. Every last one of us.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">It wasn’t global warming. It wasn’t pollution. It wasn’t genetically modified foods, or cell phones, or microwave ovens. It wasn’t personal computers or the automobile. It wasn’t war and it wasn’t famine and it wasn’t pestilence.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">It was all of those things, and more.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">Humanity will wither and die. It’s inevitable now.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">We turned our minds — those of us who still had the will to use them — to what should happen next.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">We started to consider our legacy.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">Just four words. Our legacy. Our message to whomever or whatever should return to this place after the last fire has gone out.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/08/14/humanitys-final-message-to-those-who-would-come-after/">DON’T BE LIKE US.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3707B0F9-774A-4F8D-A7D7-3BE6B7CA0559/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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