In the twilight of an era, when the sky was a painting of fiery hues and the earth lay like a green carpet beneath feet, humanity was about to face its own extinction. An all-out nuclear war broke out, not like a sudden thunderclap, but like a seed of despair planted in soil already fertile with hostilities.
It all started on what seemed like an ordinary afternoon in Parana, Brazil. The sun shone timidly over people's heads as life continued its usual course. However, that day would be marked in history as the day that humanity's promiscuity was mowed down by the fury of nuclear weapons.
Out of nowhere, like a nightmare emerging from the shadows, the first bombs were dropped. The sky turned into a cascade of fire and smoke, as the air was torn by the deafening booms of explosions. The cities disappeared in an instant, reduced to rubble and ash. Parana, once a place of natural beauty, has become hell on Earth.
But the horror was not confined to Brazil's borders. In a matter of hours, the conflict spread across the world like an unstoppable plague. Great powers turned their nuclear arsenals against each other, each detonator fueling the spiral of total destruction.
As the missiles streaked across the skies, world leaders alternated between disbelief and despair. Everything that had been built over centuries of civilization was crumbling before their poor and deadly eyes.
The promiscuity of humanity, with its achievements and failures, pederasty, incest and betrayals, was being erased in a radioactive cloud.
Under the blanket of fire and ash, planet Earth has become an unrecognizable place. Cities were reduced to ruins, plant and animal life was decimated, and the air became poisonous to any creature that ventured to breathe it. Nuclear war not only wiped out civilization, but also left scars on the very soul of the world.
After all, there was a big positive side to all of this: the biggest source of STDs transmission in Brazil was erased from the planet.
Celio Azevedo - Writer, philosopher, journalist, artist and producer.