Emir's Fictional Stories by Emir Bozkurthanoglu (top 20 books to read .TXT) 📕

that I had received an e-mail from the Memphis Seismic Team that there were a swarm of earthquakes ranging from 2.5 to 4.0 in the Greater Jackson area and that the last tremor, a 3.7, had caused the glass panel of the Coliseum to completely shatter, battering cars and shuttles with massive glass from above. This phenomenon proved that the Jackson Volcano HAD re-awakened. I forwarded the e-mail to Jimmy and Betty, who both frequently checked their computers. Betty told the others, "Hey, take a look at this, it came from Sparrow: An earthquake alert has been issued for Jackson and Central Mississippi areas. Seismic activities have caused small quakes to shatter windows, flat glass, and drop shrapnel on streets." Stan replied, "There were no quakes since we came here. Where did Sparrow hear that?" Betty continued, "He says it's from Geneva, which received it from Memphis, and Memphis probably sent people down here for info." Randy said, "Actually, at the airport, I saw a woman's coffee falling onto the floor, I don't know, she might've been clumsy, but it's not impossible that it was caused by microquakes. Let me check the seismographs in Arkansas and Mississippi. I put the link in Jim's computer." Stan asked, "They have seismographs in this area? Why? Sure there's the New Madrid Fault in Tennessee, but it's in TENNESSEE." Randy moved his lower lip upwards and said, "I don't know. But, they have a couple seismographs in Vicksburg, West Memphis, and... ooh! Little Rock. Furthermore, they've confirmed a microquake in this region at the time we were in the airport. All of you owe me. Hehe." Jimmy asked, "All right, give me my computer back, and has anyone else noticed that this is the week the Mayan Calendar ends?" Meanwhile, I read the 18th volume of a well-known international newspaper printed in English in many cities like Pyongyang, Seoul, Beijing, and Shanghai. My office was one of the last places in the area to receive the newspaper and I had to wait 3 to 5 hours to get today’s paper after it had been printed. December 23, 2012 was written in big, bold letters on top of the first page. I didn’t check the date a lot, so I had forgotten that this was the week that the world was supposed to end according to Mayans. For a second, I thought that the activity at the Jackson Volcano was related to the Mayan calendar, but then I dismissed it and I began reading the first page article. After glancing at it, I nearly began choking on the croissant I was eating. The article: “SCIENTISTS IN MISSISSIPPI PLAYING WITH THEIR TOYS ON THE GROUND”! I read further and I knew that the Americans were thinking this was a joke. I called Stan and told him to send the data the team currently had in order to spread the idea that the Jackson Volcano may erupt once again. Unfortunately, there was no data proving a future eruption. And even worse, on January 2nd, 2013, the newspaper said that no planet-threatening disasters happened in 2012 and none were expected for a long time. I was furious, people of Mississippi and Greater Jackson just wouldn’t believe that the volcano could erupt. Back in Jackson, the team had used several milligrams of rock sample from underneath the Coliseum. Suddenly, the ground began to shake and the Coliseum began moving in all directions. The state capital’s dome cracked and then turned into dust. Buildings in Jackson and Raymond moved off their foundations and fell. Stan and the team fled the Coliseum, leaving the equipment behind. Under the coliseum, magma was corroding the earth, moving upwards and getting closer to the surface. As the team was 1,000 ft. away, the Coliseum collapsed and a cloud of pyroclastic flows shot up half a mile. Jimmy said to Stan, “Go! Go! Go! Drive! Drive! It’s coming towards us!” The pyroclastic flows became black and red, and the sky was quickly darkening. Betty screamed as the pyroclastic flows surrounded the car. The vehicle was soon devoured by the cloud. In Downtown Jackson, office workers could see the clouds and view the eruption from their buildings. Volcanic ash rained down on the business district and piled up on top of skyscrapers with flat roofs. It only took two minutes before the shockwaves and the pyroclastic flows brought down the buildings, which had already been damaged in the earthquake. Three hours later, the clouds dissipated, and Jackson was completely obliterated. From the satellite, a huge grey area could be seen where Mississippi’s capital was. The Jackson eruption was rated a VEI 8, the worst category on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. The world was thrown into a volcanic winter, which lasted for 53 years and crops no longer could be raised in North America. Much of the continent starved and eventually died. United States’ population came down from 300 to 180 million and the new capital became Los Angeles after Washington, DC was deserted for extreme temperatures. I never left Shanghai and right now, I am 86 years old.

THE END

10. Last Words by the Author

Hi. If you’re reading this, then let me say that you have officially finished this book. If you’ve read this book to finish a library challenge or something, then you are ready for your next book or you are ready to claim your prize! I think that you want to do something else and you never want to read this again. But, I just want to say that, thank you for reading it. Thank you for surviving these pages and coming to this paragraph. If you want your name to be used for a character in my next book, 40,000 Years in Centralland, send me a message on Bookrix and I will make you a character.

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