Though this was relevant, since the West has decided that nuclear war isn't a big deal anymore.

  • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I had something similar, except in my own reading the whole neighborhood was intact; humanity had just vanished and this fully automated house and community just continued working in perpetuity for a human population that had simply ceased to exist. Nuclear annihilation makes perfect sense within the text of the story, but there was something inherently more sinister about my interpretation. I chalk it up to my youth.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      now i wish i had read it when i was a child because i probably would have had a year worth of weird dreams from it.