Dead End Stories From the End of the World
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She held his hand as he stood on the steel gray pad that would do the actual work. The room was very lab like, done with a lot of light colors, and having a slightly old feel to it. Like the set of a nineteen-fifties movie. Big transformer looking things hummed, and arcs of electricity colored the room blue overhead.
The whole place smelled of ozone too.
"Are you ready? We could pick someplace a bit more... restful, if you want. Boring too, but you can't have one without the other. Not unless the orgies are good."
She was deflecting, he knew. Trying not to think about what they were doing. The description of the place was fascinating though. It was in the past, but also in the present. How cool was that? That was the kind of thing that happened all the time, given the nature of reality. Everything that could happen was real someplace. Infinitely so. The thing with that was everything was possible, given those rules. Things in certain parts of reality tended to group up and be similar, but time didn't have to flow at the same rate, and not everything always meshed up perfectly. Sometimes it did though.
"Let's do it? I have my weapons, and you know, all my very goodness to keep me safe. I'm sure that will be enough, aren't you?"
She grinned at him, then shook her head. It was a slow thing, but not sad seeming at all.
"No. You have to really be Jake now, if you're going to survive this. Remember to aim for the head. They need you though. There are some good people there, but... Well, you'll see. Good luck? Remember to have sex with the alternate version of me. She seems a bit lonely."
Nodding, he put his olive colored pack on his shoulder, thought about Colleen for a second, then waved with his other hand.
"It's time."
He meant that it was time for him to leave the world he was in, and start the next thing, but Skolu pulled the lever, and he vanished from where he'd been.
Going somewhere else.
Smiling to himself, he noticed the busy road he was on, and scrambled to get out of the way of the old style cars that almost mowed him down. Fossil burners.
It was certainly not the same place he'd just been.
That was a good thing.
A very needed one.
Once on the side of the road, he turned and started walking toward the west. That was the correct direction, he thought. He needed to get to a place where he could make some connections. Then...
Then it would be time for Jake to make certain all of these people survived.
One Final Word- Hope Morley
So, as you've all figured out by now, Mickey Robson, the last Very Good Man, isn't dead and gone from the world after all.
Except, he is. Gone and not coming back, at least as far as I've ever been told. Alive, somewhere, but not coming back.
That story was delivered to me, over a decade before this was written, with a plea that it not be made public until a full fifty years had run its course, and the world had learned that they didn't really need anyone else to tell them to be good.
It was a real point.
One that was made out of love, with care for all of you. So try not to be too angry with him for leaving like that.
The time has come however, for me to do the same thing. To leave the world to its own devices.
Let me part with these few words though.
Be kind to one another. Love where you can, and always seek to be a better person to those around you.
That's all that's really needed. Do that, and the world will be a better place for all.
Like Mickey always said; It isn't that hard people.
Just remember to actually try on occasion.
Know that you all are loved.
Hope Morley
Table of Contents
A Very Good Man
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
A Very Good Neighbor
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
A Very Good Thing
Chapter One
Chapter two
Chapter three
Chapter four
Chapter five
Chapter six
Chapter seven
Chapter eight
A Very Dark Place
Chapter one
Chapter two
Chapter three
Chapter four
Chapter five
Chapter six
Chapter seven
Chapter eight
Epilogue
Stories From the End of the World
Preface: A word from Hope Morley.
The Inside Perspective- Nathaniel Burns-Green
Casualties of War- Victoria Yallasdaughter
Enter the Bard- Colleen Becks
A Very Good Bunny- Tiberia "Tipper" Skolu
Who Walks Between the Winds- Cameron
Tricks of the Trade- Burt (Humperdinck Linster the First)
Blood and Water- Alan Sims
Passing Things- Mickey Robson
One Final Word- Hope Morley