Neyok-Personal Narrative Essay

The earth was destroyed after humans warred against themselves, destroying the ecosystem and the moon. Now the whole planet is reduced to a sandy wasteland with giant cracked continents and large ravines of what used to be an ocean.
A lone woman in rags and a makeshift leather jacket walks across a sandy hill with the broadcast antennas of the empire state building protruding on the side. Her heave is grainy and she just finished her canteen 5 miles back. A large flat surface rests on its side and she starts to wipe it with her sleeve. Someone had previously sprayed red on the words ‘NeYok’, with erosion and a shotgun blast taking away the word ‘w’ and ‘r’ away. She encounters a child pulling something out of a metal trash heap and traded him a chocolate bar to show her around the place. She follows him past a settlement when everyone is leaving as a large group to scavenge surrounding town for supplies. He guides her to an entryway that seemed to lead underground, and he

She often gave the child some of her food and ate with him as she enjoyed watching him eat. Once during a scouting job, she would take out a stack of photos from her backpack and look back on her infant childhood that she could not remember. She shuffles between the wrinkled photos, and then it strikes her that one of the background buildings in them had resembled to what was in front of her. She checks out the building and finds a frail old scavenger mumbling an old world song, lying down with an empty whiskey bottle in hand. He starts to reminisce about some small books he collected before passing out. After she searches through a pile of passports in his black plastic bag, she finds out her last name from one through her picture and matches up the names from the back of her photos. After she got back to share food with the child, she decides to set out to a high point to look for the