Last Human on Earth

Last Humans Writers’ Cramp

One day Sam Adams
Wwoke up, and found himself
All alone in a world
Devoid of humans.

Everyone in the world
Had vanished
The internet was silent
The TV and radio
Silent as well.

He walked outside
Saw buses, cars, trucks, and trains
Piled up in huge crashes
When the drivers and passengers
dDsappeared into the either.

As everyone had just vanished
He wondered what had happened
To all the people.

Was this the rapture
That the Christians were always
Talking about?

He starts walking
The streets of San Francisco
Looking for survivors.

He puts out a message
On a ham radio
A mysterious woman
Maria Lee responds..

They met up
And decide to get together
As they were the last humans on earth
Endlessly wondering what had happened.

They get guns to fend off
The bears, cheetahs, coyotes,
Feral dogs, lions, tigers, and wolves,.

The world soon reverted
To a world without humans.
As the earth abides.

Write a poem or story about a character who wakes up one day to find that everyone in the world has disappeared, except for one other person who they've never met before. The two of them must navigate this strange new world together.

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Inspired by the classic novel "The Earth Abides" written in 1949 by George Stewart about a man who wakes up in a world where all the people were suddenly gone, and by the series, " Dies the Fire" by George Sterling about a massive power failure that plunges the world into darkness, with 90 percent of humanity dying within months as the food supply system totally collapses. in both novels, wild cats escape from zoos and game parks along with other exotic animals and spread out across the earth eating the now feral cows, horses, pigs, chickens, deer, and of course the terrified human survivors, some of whom become cannibal gangs to survive.


Earth Abides

Cover of the 1949 Random House first edition

Author George R. Stewart

Cover artist H. Lawrence Hoffman[1]

Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction

Publisher Random House

Publication date 1949
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 373
ISBN
978-0345487131

OCLC
2205195

Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools. Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead.
Earth Abides won the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was included in Locus Magazine's list of best All Time Science Fiction in 1987 and 1998[2] and was a nominee to be entered into the Prometheus Hall of Fame.[3] In November 1950, it was adapted for the CBS radio program Escape as a two-part drama starring John Dehner.

Dies the Fire - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_the_Fire

Dies the Fire is a 2004 alternate history and post-apocalyptic novel written by S. M. Stirling. It is the first installment of the Emberverse series and is a spin-off from S. M. Stirling's Nantucket series in which the Massachusetts island of Nantucket is thrown back in time from March 17, 1998 to the Bronze Age. In Dies

Setting

Dies the Fire is a fantasy novel set in post-apocalyptic Oregon and Idaho. After an unknown phenomenon disables most forms of modern technology such as electricity, high-pressure steam-power, combustion, …