Sixth Extinction

A project I’ve been working on for a while not is now coming closer to the finish product. Sixth Extinction is available already on Wattpad, were its been up since being in draft mode.

 The Earth has been through five extinctions. The sixth one's ours.

 The sun's radiation reaches Earth on a deadly level. Everyone knows the human race and many other living organisms on the planet will be extinct within a hundred years.

For some people, this is unacceptable.

Fifty million years later, 8 survivors emerge from cryogenic chambers into a new world. Their fight to survive the extinction is a success. But, can they survive in this new world full of many dangers? Alone.

I wrote Sixth Extinction during the 2013 NaNoWriMo write-a-thon, base off Scully’s voice over in the X-Files.

Scully: (voiceover) From Space, it seems an abstraction-- a magician's trick on a darkened stage. And from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive. It first appeared in the sea almost four billion years ago in the form of single-celled life. In an explosion of life spanning millions of years, nature's first multicellular organisms began to multiply... and then it stopped. 440 million years ago, a great mass extinction would kill off nearly every species on the planet leaving the vast oceans decimated and empty. Slowly, plants began to evolve, then insects, only to be wiped out in the second great mass extinction upon the Earth. The cycle repeated again and again. Reptiles emerging, independent of the sea only to be killed off. Then dinosaurs, struggling to life along with the first birds, fish, and flowering plants - their decimations Earth's fourth and fifth great extinctions. Only 100,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens appear-- man. From cave paintings to the bible to Columbus and Apollo 11, we have been a tireless force upon the earth and off cataloguing the natural world as it unfolds to us. Rising to a world population of over five billion people all descended from that original single cell, that first spark of life. But for all our knowledge, what no one can say for certain, is what or who ignited that original spark. Is there a plan, a purpose or a reason to our existence? Will we pass, as those before us, into oblivion, into the sixth extinction that scientists warn is already in progress?

http://en.wikiquote.org/   Biogenesis [6.22]

  

I’ve been submitting parts of chapters to a site called JukePop. 

JukePop is a reading site where authors can post their work. A little like Wattpad, but have stricter guidelines for quality. I’m hoping to become a permanent author on the site

It’s currently under a competition in the Camp Nanowrimo section. If you can head over there and give the story a vote, I would love the support.

Support the story via voting here at, 

https://www.jukepop.com/home/read/2276