Submarine

The water was deep here. No light reached them as they floated. No currents pushed at their hull. All was darkness and silence.

They discussed what had happened in the world above. Corporal Lundt believed war had broken out and the world had burned, so fast no one had time to warn them. Captain Barnaby favored a disease, a terrible plague. Private Timon mumbled they’d simply been forgotten, the entire planet marching into the future together, save for the crew of the submarine.

They told stories, but they never dared rise again to the surface. What if they were wrong?