Civilisation

Question 1

I stood looking over my damaged home

Answer 1

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth

Question 2

No more Internet. No more social media…

Answer 2

No more Internet. No more social media…No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars

Question 3

She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it,

Answer 3

She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place.

Question 4

civilisation in year twenty was

Answer 4

civilisation in year twenty was an archipelago of small towns

Question 5

These towns had fought off

Answer 5

These towns had fought off ferals, buried their neighbours, lived, died and suffered together

Question 6

Year Fifteen… the world was a

Answer 6

Year Fifteen… the world was a string of settlements now