The Ones who Came Before
Forty thousand years in the future, the San Francisco Bay Area has frozen over, and the San Francisco Bay is now but a cold plain. Massive monuments of what came before line the mountains that were once islands, dotted with ancient structres.
Earth undergoes a constant cycle of warming and cooling. Humanity, in the year 2014, is currently in the middle of a warm period that peaked about 1500. Within ten thousand years, Earth will undergo a new ice age. During that time, Humanity is likely to either escape to the underground or disappear entirely. This is the story of the San Francisco Bay in the year 141673, at the end of one of those icy periods.
1284 words: Estimated 6 minutes to read
Download:
1 Chapter:
- 01. Cold 2014-07-31 18:43:06 UTC1284