Till A’the Seas

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Till A’the Seas is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow, written in January, 1935 and published in Summer 1935 in "The Californian"

[edit] Plot

The story consists of two parts. The first describes the events which took place on Earth from a few thousand years after present to few millions years. The climate on Earth is getting warmer and warmer, oceans are slowly dissapiering. People are gradually moving towards poles, becoming more and more barbaric. Mankind is stadyaly dying out because of the lack of water, until there is only a few decades left.

The second part starts is set in a small village in a desert. There is only one men left in the village: young Ul. A very old women, the only company for the men, dyed just before. So Ul starts a journey in search of other people, and he seems to know from old legends the place. In a few days, extreamly thirsty and tired, he finds a small settlement, enters one of the houses and finds nothing, but a dried up long ago skeleton. Depressed, he starts searching for water and finds a well with a little water in it. Trying to reach the string to pull up a dip-bucket, he falls into well and dyes. And after the death of the last men mankind is totally vanished. A farce, named evolution, faces a natural conclusion.