[ WP ] A virus hit the world wiping everyone but you out . To keep yourself sane , you listen to books on tape on a battery powered Walkman to hear people 's voices . But you are down to your last pair of batteries .

I grasped the cool AA batteries in my hand. I inserted them into the device responsible for keeping me sane, a battery-powered Walkman with books on tape I could listen to. They keep me sane, because without them, I would be truly alone. Isolated away from all human contact. 
 
 It was a virus. Genetically engineered by the bio-terrorists who wanted to kill everyone. They wiped us all out. Every single one of us, except me. I'm immune. I do n't know why, or how. Often I feel my immunity is more of a curse than a blessing. 
 
 As I walk back into my old house, I get the chills all of a sudden. I see a calendar. The date reads September 25, 2017. It had n't been flipped since I'd moved into the hospital to live with my dying wife and family. I see pictures of them framed on the wall. 
 
 I head into the basement, a dust-filled room acting as a house for bugs and creatures. I look at a locked briefcase. I knew what I had to do. My last pair of batteries would die soon, I only had a short amount of time before I started to go insane. This was my only chance to get out of the miserable life of insanity that laid ahead of me. 
 
 I opened the lock, using my passcode. 7/23/10. Our anniversary. I felt the skin around my eyes begin to wet as I took the device out of the case. I took the loaded Glock 22, put it into my mouth, and pulled the trigger.
