30 Minute Warning

[Cleophila]

Recently I was reading the news reports about the high potential for Earth being caught in a solar flare in the near future. A lot of the coverage of this is how there'll only be a '30 minute warning'. In actuality, all it is likely to do is damage satellites and such, but the phrase '30 minute warning' has ominous associations with the Cold War era of the fear of imminent nuclear destruction.

All of this got me thinking about story ideas. What if you did receive a real 30 minute warning? Realistically, there is no way to save yourself from the impending disaster, so how to spend that last half hour? It seems likely that anyone that could would find someone to enjoy their last minutes with. But would it be heartfelt and loving or hard and rushed?

 

[MatthewVett]

Interesting idea... Maybe set during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you're in a major city, you're counting down to your last moments. Maybe you're holed up in dad's fallout shelter, nervously watching the second hand on the clock tick down to the end of the world. In their last moments, these two nervous young adults reach out to the only other human left and find some last minute warmth and intimacy...

And then, relaxing in post-coital bliss, they turn the radio back on, and the radio announcer comes on to remind viewers that this was only a drill.

Can't have an end of the world ending to erotica, can you?

 

[NASCARaddicted]

And then, relaxing in post-coital bliss, they turn the radio back on, and the radio announcer comes on to remind viewers that this was only a drill.

Or, even better then a drill:

Have you ever heard about the radio play "War of the Worlds" from 1938?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)

... The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. ...

... In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage and panic by certain listeners, who had believed the events described in the program were real ...

So, think about it: instead of a 30 minute warning, there is this radio play, about Martians attacking the earth. Some people believe that this is real and so they seek shelter and wait for judgement day.

Maybe they have a radio there, or maybe not. They decide to have some fun. Maybe this is their first time sex (remember this radio play was in 1938).

So they have some wild sex and finally, they are ready for the end of the world ... but somehow, it doesn't happen. After some time they think it is time for more sex ... so they do it again. After that, they wait some more and have some more sex. This goes on for some time (hours, days, weeks?). Finally they leave the shelter to see what the Martians have done to the earth - and they are surprised. Everything looks like before. People are walking around as normal. They ask one guy about the Martian attack - and he just laughs about it.
"This was just a radio show, nothing more. You really thought it was real?"

As an alternative, it could be like: They are horny and since this is the end of the world, they don't use any contraceptives (like condoms). They have a radio in the shelter and just when the guy shoots his load into her pussy, the radio announcer says "I hope you enjoyed our play and tune in next week for another chapter of our realistic radio plays"

By the way (some may like this, some not): since this is the end of the world, they ignore all taboos. So this could include homosexuality (male or female) or incest. Or, maybe a big age difference (remember this happend in 1938). There is this 18 year old guy. He is alone, because his parents are away from home, visiting some relatives in another state. They 60 year old widow from the neighbourhood looks after him. They sit together in the living room of the parents, when they hear the radio play. The radio just announces that many towns of the east coast are already destroyed - and his parents are at the east coast.

The neighbour widow hugs the guy and cuddles him. He feels her boobs pressed against his body ... and he starts to touch them. She doesn't stop him. They get naked and fuck.

Suddenly, the door opens and his parents walk in ...

 

[MatthewVett]

Or, even better then a drill:

Have you ever heard about the radio play "War of the Worlds" from 1938?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)

... The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. ...

... In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage and panic by certain listeners, who had believed the events described in the program were real ...

So, think about it: instead of a 30 minute warning, there is this radio play, about Martians attacking the earth. Some people believe that this is real and so they seek shelter and wait for judgement day.

Maybe they have a radio there, or maybe not. They decide to have some fun. Maybe this is their first time sex (remember this radio play was in 1938).

So they have some wild sex and finally, they are ready for the end of the world ... but somehow, it doesn't happen. After some time they think it is time for more sex ... so they do it again. After that, they wait some more and have some more sex. This goes on for some time (hours, days, weeks?). Finally they leave the shelter to see what the Martians have done to the earth - and they are surprised. Everything looks like before. People are walking around as normal. They ask one guy about the Martian attack - and he just laughs about it.
"This was just a radio show, nothing more. You really thought it was real?"

I like this idea, although, in text, it might get a bit tedious, a week of the same. Maybe if it were a long, slow ascent to fucking, you could keep it interesting, though. Or a larger group of people. Maybe an entire class of young adults ended up in the fallout shelter together, and now you've got all those hormones bottled up for a week.

 

[Cleophila]

Interesting idea... Maybe set during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you're in a major city, you're counting down to your last moments. Maybe you're holed up in dad's fallout shelter, nervously watching the second hand on the clock tick down to the end of the world. In their last moments, these two nervous young adults reach out to the only other human left and find some last minute warmth and intimacy...

And then, relaxing in post-coital bliss, they turn the radio back on, and the radio announcer comes on to remind viewers that this was only a drill.

Can't have an end of the world ending to erotica, can you?

To be honest, the story ending with the end of the world is kind of what makes it interesting to me. It's that sense of no consequences, of not having to bother with the thousand other distractions that we have to go through the day with, of one moment of pure pleasure before the end.

Also, no chance of a sequel!

 

[MatthewVett]

To be honest, the story ending with the end of the world is kind of what makes it interesting to me. It's that sense of no consequences, of not having to bother with the thousand other distractions that we have to go through the day with, of one moment of pure pleasure before the end.

Also, no chance of a sequel!

Never saw never! Beneath the Planet of the Apes ended with the world blowing up, and they made three sequels!

 

[Carnevil9]

I read a story long ago (not here) about a guy who really, really wanted to fuck this one girl. She'd date him, and hang out with him, but refused to give up her virginity.

So, he had her over for dinner one day, and had a friend in the next apartment broadcasting a fake news bulletin: the missiles were coming, and we all have just an hour to live! The girl decided that she didn't want to die a virgin, and they spent the hour rutting like crazed weasels.

When no missiles arrived and nobody died, of course, she knew the jig was up. I don't recall exactly how it ended after that, except I recall the girl wasn't nearly as pissed as I expected her to be.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Recently I was reading the news reports about the high potential for Earth being caught in a solar flare in the near future. A lot of the coverage of this is how there'll only be a '30 minute warning'. In actuality, all it is likely to do is damage satellites and such, but the phrase '30 minute warning' has ominous associations with the Cold War era of the fear of imminent nuclear destruction.

All of this got me thinking about story ideas. What if you did receive a real 30 minute warning? Realistically, there is no way to save yourself from the impending disaster, so how to spend that last half hour? It seems likely that anyone that could would find someone to enjoy their last minutes with. But would it be heartfelt and loving or hard and rushed?

XXXenophile had a story along these lines. "Then we duel for you with chainsaws like our primitive ancestors did!"

BTW, a big magnetic storm can knock out power grids as well as communications satellites - it's a major threat, although not something that's going to kill you immediately.

 

[Cleophila]

I read a story long ago (not here) about a guy who really, really wanted to fuck this one girl. She'd date him, and hang out with him, but refused to give up her virginity.

So, he had her over for dinner one day, and had a friend in the next apartment broadcasting a fake news bulletin: the missiles were coming, and we all have just an hour to live! The girl decided that she didn't want to die a virgin, and they spent the hour rutting like crazed weasels.

When no missiles arrived and nobody died, of course, she knew the jig was up. I don't recall exactly how it ended after that, except I recall the girl wasn't nearly as pissed as I expected her to be.

That seems unnecessarily cruel, there's not much decent emotional core to a story that's just out and out lies to get a girl into bed.

My idea with this is to have it focus on a couple who are becoming increasingly distant, stressed, wrapped up in their own lives, jobs etc., and rediscover their passion for each other when the impending world's end forces them to consider their priorities.