How come everywhere was abandoned, surely someone must have stayed behind. He would be amazed if everyone had disappeared. Yet it seemed universal, every building he visited seemed like this one, instantly abandoned. Lights left on, why even on some occasions, he had found watering cans filled ready to water plants.

He knew that when he left home in his attempt to climb three Munros without stopping, there had been concern about North Korea’s intentions, but surely they could not have the ultimate weapon. The newspapers said that only the USA had managed to build one. Confused: Jim decidedly was.

Footnotes:

Monroes is a term used to denote mountains over three thousand feet high in Scotland.

Bagging Munros is now a popular past time. But be aware attempting to bag to many at one go, can be a reason for delirium. Even if that state is only one of wild excitement, should you succeed in your attempt.

Within this prompt I saw the spiders web, it looked like a maze to me. So I decided to use the word ‘maze’ and see what came forth. The term ‘maze’ in old English is thought to have been used to describe delirium.