“The sky…I remember how the sky looked when it happened. The clear and beautiful blue, that the whole world had taken for granted, had turned brightly gold, then scarlet rippled across the endless horizon until the entire sky remained blood red. The sun was gone. It blew up. Yet…we were still alive.

The scientists succeeded where they had failed. They predicted the supernova, but they couldn’t stop it…so they replaced it. Though it served its purpose, it wasn’t perfect. The artificial sun was smaller, but a lot closer to the planet than the original, and it was flaming red. Most people died of severe allergy reactions from the unnatural ultraviolet rays. The rest had to get accustomed to the new day and night. The sun now orbits the Earth and much more slowly than how the Earth orbited the old sun. So there would be like endless daylight in one place, while endless night in the other. They had to invent a new calendar system for the change. An entire day now lasts 168 hours (night lasts for three normal 24hr days while daytime lasts four), four days for a month, forty-eight days a year, and three months for a year. Weeks no longer exist.

Meanwhile, during the day it is hot and everything hanged in a crimson glaze, while the night was terrifying. The supernova had taken the moon with it so the night had become pitch black and friezing cold. It actually snowed heavily at night and people died from heat strokes the next day which took at least a normal week to come around. Energy sources were scarce. Blackouts are deadly during the night, but unfortunately are common. To remedy this, the scientists found another energy source…the Earth’s core. By plugging into this dangerous source they produced sufficient power for the entire world. People protested of course, but in the end they only could only force the government to establish and reinforce laws to keep it controlled. It’ll only be a matter of time before the Core gives out.

The Antarctica and the North and South poles have disappeared, which is actually a good thing since it prevented the danger of a massive drought throughout the world. Alaska has changed completely; it now looks like Nevada with very large lakes in some areas. The supernova also appears to have affected the atmosphere. There are no longer seasons. There is just summer at day, everyday, and winter at night, every night. The rain is boiling acid, the sky fiery red, clouds red-orange, and snow ash gray. The spontaneous storms last months. Getting hit by lightning during these months was unfortunately a lot more common.

It was chaos, complete chaos! The new daylight system was creating problems for schools, businesses, and religious organizations, let alone the common people. Other countries tried to use the disorder as a way to topple America, but in the end they were all suffering equally. The large gravity shift caused earthquakes and volcanoes to appeared everywhere. Hundreds of people were dying daily, which is actually weekly. It’s confusing! It drove people mad; it almost drove me mad! It was the end of the world.

But as the years passed, the planet began to stabilized itself. People started adapting to the new way of things and countries actually settled down. Strange things also started happening as time passed. The new generations were born with scarlet, yellow or violet eyes, or just dark brown or black eyes until blue and green eyes were rarely seen. They were born with tougher, darker skin even when both parents were white; and grew red hair with yellow streaks, yellow hair with red streaks, or white hair. I even saw a kid with green hair that definitely didn’t look dyed.

That was just the start. I wish it wasn’t. A war was going to break out and no one saw it coming. The sky changed again… I was half hoping it would turn back to the blue I remembered and missed dearly. But it didn’t. I shouldn’t have look at it. I knew I shouldn’t have. The global alarm went off. Everyone was ordered to enter their homes or a nearby building and shut the windows and doors. They ordered it hours before it happened. The sun…something was wrong with the sun. But instead of hiding, I ran to the middle of nowhere, on top of a small hill, and stared directly at the sun. I was pissed! Furious! The damned sun had claimed my family: my mother, my father, and my baby brother. All of them died when I was just a child. I was sixteen when I stared at the furious fake star and dared it to blow up, dared it to try and finish us off after we have worked so hard to make some kind of life.

It didn’t blow up, but now that I think about it…I wish it did.”