“It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that ‘”‘it can’t happen here'”‘ — that one’s own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”
– John Wyndham describing the 8th of May, a day the he made better known as the Day of the Triffids.
Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must lead a group of blind beings to safety.
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