User blog comment:Spartian300/Novel projects for AVA R-word?/@comment-35390562-20140113133215

The desert was hot. My platoon had been wiped out and I was the only one left. I needed to reach Cairo so I could nuke it for some reason. So very tired. Maybe it was the heat of the boiling jungle. Heat can do terrible things to a mind, you know. None of these past few years made any sense. Hell, to a heat-deprived mind, nothing made sense.

Or perhaps... perhaps I was finally thinking...

A faint glimmer caught my eye. Of course, it could have been anything. An oasis. A mirror. A really well-polished car. A nuke. Ignoring the potential danger, I approached the glimmer. Twinkling like the most beautiful object in the world, it stood out triumphantly against the dull, seemingly never-ending dunes of the Sahara.

The walk... it felt like it had taken forever. The sun battered my dirty face, burning it with its ever-present rays. It was hard to imagine that, in less than a few long hours, this scorching day would turn into a frigid, sand-blasted night. I perched my hand on my forehead, shielding my eyes from the harsh sunlight, as I walked on, approaching the glimmer. When I had finally reached it, I stood in awe. Out of a million things this glimmer could have been, it was a Coca-Cola vending machine.

I touched the metal to make sure it was real, my hand coming into contact with what I had previously assumed was a mirage. This was an actual Coca-Cola machine in the middle of the desert. I grinned almost defiantly, as if to curse the sun for making me suffer through these last few days. I rummaged through my pocket, searching for $1.25. Surely enough, that exact amount of money had been waiting for me in my pocket. I clutched the money and put it in the machine, the quarters tumbling into the coin slot.

I felt along the row of selections before making my choice: Coca-Cola. The classic drink. I pressed the button only to be rewarded with a beeping noise. The 'sold out' light came on. Enraged, I kicked the machine. Little did I know it was really a nuclear bomb.

Nuclear bombs everywhere.

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