The procession stomped past, kicking up red sand. Participants dressed in blue and green, holding banners in remembrance of Planet Earth, singing old songs.

Annie squeezed her grandmother’s hand.

“Nana. What are we celebrating?”

“It’s been fifty years since we had to leave,” she replied, gazing at the empty sky.

David Turton is a fiction author, flitting between science fiction, post-apocalyptic horror and straight-up terror. Look out for his published work across various online publications as well as a forthcoming Body Horror Anthology due in late 2017.