This last piece is really impressive! It gives a very striking visual image and the flow is really nice.

Glad you like it! This piece really makes the whole series, I think. The rest was really just trying to get people to this one, haha.

Are you gonna go to sleep now that they're all done?

Nope. If I could've really fallen back asleep I never would've gotten up when I did. Plus, I'm loaded with caffeine now. I couldn't sleep if I wanted to, haha.

I'd like to say I can't sleep right now, but I know that if I laid back down in bed it would be the end of me. Luckily I came into work two hours early today.

Oh God, two hours early? I can't imagine. XD They'll let you go home early as a result though, right?

Yeah, luckily enough... though, come to think of it, I do need the cash bad enough to stay for full time... But my sanity demands I go home early.

Yes, the sanity is definitely the more important of the two. I mean, insane people don't need money. I'm pretty sure the straitjacket is provided by the state anyway...

And that padded room ain't expensive, either.

Plus they bring you three free hot meals a day. Is it just me, or is going insane starting to sound slightly appealing? Well, only slightly more insane, in my case...but still...

I'm hungry. 8I

I assure you that I do not taste good slow roasted with barbecue sauce. Try grilled instead.

Well, take off your clothes. It's hard for me to rip them off in my ravenous frenzy.

Not a fan of garnish, eh? *Disrobes* Now we just need to find a me-sized grill. Shall I hire Bobby Flay to serve?

No no, let's make this really interesting and get Paula Deen to do the cooking (that crazy bitch...).

Ah, so I'll be deep fried and covered in 10 gallons of gravy. Splendid!

That's the spirit!

GERONIMOOOO! *Swan dive into massive vat of gravy*

*Giggle*

*Backstrokes around the vat.* Do you suppose that obscenely rich people have pools filled with gravy?

Maybe... if they're cannibals... *watches*

Well, of course they're cannibals. That's how they got so rich in the first place. Voodoo, human sacrifice, eating the flesh of their enemies. That's the real secret of the stock market.

Must be one hell of thing to keep clean though...

Powerful, very powerful imagery there. Good to see that parts of the preview carried over and have been made even stronger in this final verse. I also can't help but agree with the prediction this makes: when humanity is the absolute power it will bring only death.

(Oh and an amusing conversation you two were having above me. I would join in myself but I suppose the comments have been scrunched up enough as it is in your chain of replies there)

This piece really is the star of the series. I'm sure it's obvious, but I based the imagery off of the explosion of an atom bomb. It just seemed like an appropriate event to mark the death of God and rise of man in the narrative. It's such an ominous, jarring, and violent thing, and yet it's the epitome of what man has been able to achieve with his knowledge, at least as far as the exertion of sheer power is concerned.

I agree, this is definitely the highlight of the series and the most appropriate way of ending it. It's interesting that the symbol of the fall of God/rise of man is also simultaneously a symbol of the fall of mankind...