The Day The World Froze

The day the world froze was icy enough to meld our hearts into stone.

It had all began months before as the polar caps began to grow, rapidly. Icy winds blew through the Sahara Desert and strange phenomena such as snow was to be found in arid places like on Australia's Uluru. Not to mention a polar bear was seen walking the streets of Germany and a penguin crossing the boarder into France! The sudden chill over the globe was like God blew an icy breath upon the world and was seconds from smashing it into small pieces of ice shards.

We all felt and knew it was time to flee. Warmth was a myth by the time my family moved. Trudging through snow-bound streets, we headed north towards the less cool part of the equator. Sadly many of those who came with us did not survive the sudden blizzards that struck up within half a minute every two hours. I now can only laugh at what they told us in school before the Big Freeze - Global Warming, the globe's getting warmer? I don't think so.

So now living in conditions in which the entire population of the world is trying to cram into - we're running out of resources. This weather has killed off all crops - even the ones who are strongest against mild frost. Our clothing is tattered and mended here and there with any materials we can find and wood is constantly being stockpiled for warmth and bonfires in the caves we must resign ourselves to live in. We can only hope it doesn't run out soon.

I guess it's just one be joke isn't it - the world coaxed mankind out of its caves and enticed it into the arms of new life whereas now, it seems to have had enough of us and is forcing us to turn back the clock. Cavemen are all we are now. I heard that there are other... more savage groups of people around the equator region that have resorted to acts of cannibalism, it happens most often on the islands. Luckily the temporary International Crisis Government has placed laws and banns on this community of ours against such horrors.

Only time will tell if we survive each night and the one after. As in times like these, people are desperate.

(Science-Fiction Beginning)