Unlocking Moric's Secrets

The lights had been dimmed for a long time, and the only illumination was my computer screen. It gave off a dull orange glow that illuminated my desk and chair, but nothing else.

I sat in a black void.

The darkness didn't bother me, it never did. I knew where everything was in my room. Where the door was, where the windows were. If need be, I could get to the kitchen without even hitting any furniture or stumbling over anything. Or tripping over anything for that matter, because there was nothing out of place in my apartment anymore.

I heard footsteps outside my apartment door. They were heavy, purposeful. A man's steps. I knew it was him before he knocked on my door.

"Moric," His voice came through the thin door as I sat in the dark with no intention of answering it. "Please open up."

I didn't, and I wasn't going to.

"I know you're in there Moric." He said, his voice pleading now instead of demanding. "Please open up."

He knew I wouldn't respond to that either. He'd given up on trying to get me to speak to him months ago.

Now he just sat at my door and waited for me to relent and answer it so he could plead with me some more.

I heard a sigh from outside my door as he resigned himself to sitting there in silence.

A few minutes later I heard another knock on the door and his voice again saying: "Moric?"

That's when I got up and went over to unlock the dead bolt and open the door slowly and softly enough that it wouldn't make a sound when it opened all the way until I could get a good look at him sitting outside my apartment door. I saw his back first, slumped forward with his elbows on his knees, resting his head in hands that were clasped together tightly against his face as if he were praying or hiding from the world or both at once..

When he spoke again his voice cracked and was filled with sadness and self pity as he mumbled half-heartedly: "Please?"

*

The world had ended about half an hour earlier when we realized our cure didn't work as well as we thought it would have after all. The virus spread faster than hoped for too, infecting more people than we expected it would have by this point in time too. They said some people would be immune to it but they lied; everyone who caught it died within a week of contracting it except for me.

In fact not only did everyone die but they stood up again after three days until they started attacking other people violently like they were zombies or something out of one of those old books Lisa liked so much before she died of the virus too several months before all this happened when she contracted it while visiting her family down south somewhere near Atlanta where her father still lived alone after her mother died several years ago of cancer while she was young and that's why she hadn't wanted to visit them in fear she'd catch whatever killed her momma but she'd been foolish because she'd ended up dying anyway even though she hadn't gone anywhere near them but she'd been infected by one of them anyway without even knowing it which is how most everyone got infected anyway because nobody ever told us there was a damn virus until after Lisa died and everyone else started dying too soon after that except for me because somehow I'd survived being infected by it even though everyone else eventually turned into those things that were pretty close to zombies if you ask me because they attacked people just like them although they weren't dead yet they just couldn't die anymore which is why they kept trying to attack people even though they just kept getting beat up worse every time they tried it although sometimes someone managed to kill one of them but usually not right away because those things are tough fuckers but eventually someone managed to kill one after beating its ass for quite a while which is what happened to Lisa's dad on his front lawn when one of them broke through his front window while trying to bite him and beat him up while he tried desperately taht fend off its attacks with a baseball bat until finally someone came along with a gun who shot that thing right between its eyes which killed it instantly although not before Lisa's daddy got bit somewhere on his arm which killed him instantly too even though he survived long enough after being shot by that person who shot him down with that gun just long enough for someone else who had stopped at his house during their drive home from work after seeing Lisa on TV talking about how this disease had killed millions of people all over the world including her own mother before shooting her father down on his front yard so she could see what had happened to him herself before running away from her dad's house crying hysterically as far away from there as she could go without actually driving off into the middle of nowhere where she might've been eaten alive by whatever caused this shitstorm anyway although nobody knows what caused this shitstorm anyway exactly although some believe terrorists are responsible while others think God is punishing humanity for allowing abortion clinics everywhere since then which is why everybody has died except me because those places have all either been destroyed or shut down since then because nobody could find any medical records showing anyone has received abortions since then which is why nobody knows who is responsible for killing everyone either unless maybe God is doing this shit himself because apparently he doesn't care much for abortionists neither according I guess but personally I'm not sure if God can do stuff like this anyway even if God does exist which some scientists believe might be possible although personally I don't believe God exists especially considering how corrupt humans can be sometimes believing themselves capable of such terrible acts like wiping out entire populations including babies or torturing other humans or bombing cities or forcing starving refugees onto ships bound for certain death somewhere across unforgiving seas filled with sharks while letting their own citizens live comfortable lives free from danger meaning God probably doesn't exist especially considering how selfish humans can be especially considering how selfish most human beings can be regardless of religious beliefs and racial backgrounds etc etc etc...