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End of the world Fable
Once earth was a beautiful planet with lots of colors, animals, water, and blue skies, every piece of it had bunches of life, and people lived in peace since a long time ago, it was warm and cozy, it was our home, and as if it was a joke one day everything disappeared in the blink of an eye, and just because a door was left open. One morning of the year 2020 a very dumb and distracted person, Dr. Esteban Quito, left his breakfast at the oven and it caught in fire, that very same morning Dr. Quito had to present a machine for time travel that he liked to call it machine for time travel, the problem was that he could not leave his home without having breakfast, because he was like a little kid who liked his breakfast homemade.
When the new breakfast was ready he left his home in a big hurry, the presentation of the machine was almost beginning and he wasn't there, he left his house door open despite her wife every morning tells him to close the door and by the time he left some burglars entered the house.
When he arrived to the lab, the machine´s presentation was already delayed 30 minutes, he made all the preps for demonstration and prepared the guy who was going to the future, Alex was his name, a 25 year old pizza delivery guy who needed some extra money to take his girlfriend out to a fancy dinner, little they knew earth's end was near. Other scientists were in the crowd, impatient and annoyed at Dr. Quito’s delay, he got really nervous and did it all in a hurry, he thought he had closed the door after Alex the delivery guy had entered the machine, but he didn’t. The machine consisted of a small capsule with very good security, all you had to do to keep the effects inside was to shut the door, some people noticed that door was still opened and tried to warn Dr. Quito but he was too nervous and he thought they were just yelling mean stuff at him so he decided not to listen and urged himself to push the button as soon as possible, so he did. A bright white light covered the whole room, then the whole building and suddenly the entire planet was covered in it, which ended up basically making the world age very very fast, after just a couple minutes, everything grey and dead. The earth which was once a beautiful blue planet turned into a small black sphere, like a rotten grape. Alone, in a corner covered in dust a cockroach woke up from a nap and said “What happened?”.And another cockroach replied, “He didn't close the door”.
