Survivors of the Earth
It was the age when humankind, in its arrogance, had pushed nature to her final limit—
the age when the Earth, humiliated and wounded, chose to strike back.
And when Nature decides to answer, even the mightiest of species stands powerless before her fury.
each a reflection of the planet’s fractured soul.
a man at war with himself.
Armed with degrees but starved of purpose, he now repents the choices he once called ambition.
He wonders why he spent his youth chasing knowledge instead of nourishment—
why he fed his mind while his family fed his body.
Haunted by this guilt, he renounces food altogether,
vowing to face life’s brutal truths on an empty stomach,
as if hunger could redeem what ignorance had devoured.
a woman who had made peace with her curse.
Not only did others call her unlucky; she had begun to believe it herself.
She had no faith in God, no trust in destiny—
yet she could never explain why an unseen force seemed to stalk her,
why every moment of light in her life turned to shadow before she could touch it.
Even death had refused her;
every attempt to end her misery had only chained her deeper to it.
Her once-wealthy father, ruined by her misfortunes, cast her out,
and she wandered across Australia and the Pacific Isles,
seeking bread, shelter, and meaning—
but misfortune trailed her like her own shadow.
a survivor of a tribe that once thrived along the banks of the Niger River.
But the changing climate turned his paradise into a wasteland.
Now, every grain of food was a battle won, and often lost.
He had made his peace with sin—
believing that his sister’s womb was a fair price for survival.
In a world where no crop grew and no rain fell,
nations that once fed the earth had stopped exporting grain;
the import-dependent lands like his fell into chaos and bloodshed.
Sawo, too, was swallowed by this struggle
and forced to wander in search of new ground—
a ground that might still remember what it meant to be fertile.
a being of contradictions.
While three-quarters of the world was sinking in ruin,
she belonged to the privileged few for whom disaster was still a distant story.
She lived two lives—
one in the body of a man,
and one in the spirit of a woman.
To the world, she was masculine, strong, composed;
but in the privacy of her solitude, she surrendered to her feminine self.
Her greatest enemy, however, was the weather itself.
The rising seas had already claimed half her city,
and now a massive cyclone stood poised to erase the rest.
She fled the drowning city—
only to fall into the hands of those who traded in human organs.
Oceans boiled.
Mountains collapsed.
The Earth began shedding her old skin,
purging herself of all that had infected her.
Civilizations crumbled like sandcastles in a storm.
The planet devoured its own past—
to birth a new beginning.
these four souls fought not just for survival,
but for the continuation of the human gene itself—
to carry the remnants of humankind through this cleansing fire
into the dawn of a new epoch.
how death pursued them and yet they walked through its shadow,
you must live this story, not merely read it.
Because some tales are not written to be told—
they are written to be survived.
At the heart of this story are four lives scattered across the corners of the dying world—
Vinod, from the scorched lands of Rajasthan, India—
Emily, born in Auckland, New Zealand—
Sawo, from the arid stretches of Mali—
And then there was Isabelle, from Canada—
And then—Nature roared.
The skies split open.
In the midst of this apocalypse,
To understand how they endured,

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