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1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.

So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.

10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.

She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"

#microfiction

Lifted from @taylorlorenz Insta account, but had to share. I had this exact same thought the last time I went into one.
@neilhimself Thank you for the 'Seamstress' scene. I think someone may be cutting onions, here...
@cstross "she had a mind like one of those ancient screen savers that generated a mess of twisty 3D plumbing with multiple sets of pipes, none of them intersecting." - and at least one junction is a teapot! 🤣
@cstross Nearly 2/3rds of the way through, before 'information'? Tsk, Tsk! 🤣
@GCogman "Ours is a high and lonely destiny". Hmm - I've heard those words before - and it wasn't the good guys saying them...