[ WP ] Its been 4 days since the biggest solar flare in history took out the power grid . A well educated homeless man smiles as he sits watching the city burn in the valley below . Why is he smiling ?

From up above, it looked as if Lucifer himself had cracked open the earth, and all manner of Hell was seeping out. The cries of those trapped in the carnage had disappated long ago; their bodies turned to smoke and ash, leaving no remnant of the impact they had made. Or the lives they lived. 
 An occasional burst could be heard, like the faraway sound of a popping corn kernel. A shattered glass, the belated explosion of a gas tank. The air was thick, and smelled sickly sweet. 
 
 And through the cadence, the Man laughed. 
 
 He surveyed the damage with a complete air of satisfaction. 
 
'Fools!', he roared, his voice breaking the grotesque silence of absence.'I watched you all burn. I heard your weeping. You begged for your toxic little lives!' He fell into a fit of cackles, broken only by great gasping coughs. 
 
'I watched your as The Lord showed me what your bodies truly were! Your flesh decayed and the Poison showed itself to me. *I* was saved. The Lord has seen that I was the only Human after all!' 
 
 The Man pulled himself upright, and grinned, revealing but few precious teeth, in a face of charcoal and blisters. He dragged his body to the edge of the cliff, one leg gone, with the marks of fire over his bare body. Flies had settled into his hair to feast, whilst others still were laying waste to his pitiful stump. But this was no concern for the Man. He knew he was saved. 
 
 His arms stretched out to the heavens; cracked, red and bleeding. Nails all but gnawed off. 
 
'Take me, oh Lord! I am Saved! I fought the evil toxins and lived! I... I deserve this! ***TAKE ME NOW***!' 
 
 And through the sound of the death of man, and the smell of fire, came nothing. 
 
 Only silence.
