After the Chernoyl Disaster
The Chernoyl plant, not to be confused with the Chernobyl nuclear plant, manufactured male enhancement supplements. Not garden variety supplements, mind you, but the best creatine, bodybuilding supplements, and mixtures to grow the size of every man's sweet spot.
It's still a mystery what caused the Chernoyl plant to explode one hot summer night when operations had ceased for the day. The impact on the surrounding ecology was immediate, and devastating. Insects, mice, and other varmint had mutated to be the size of adult humans, with corresponding increases in their male sweet spots.
Within days of the disaster, the military created a one-mile exclusion zone around the plant. Only Dr. Klarrion and his nurse, Nancy, were allowed to enter the site. Officially, they were there to research how to mitigate the disaster. The military was also interested in combat uses of the mutant wildlife. And Dr. Klarrion had his own demented vision.
Thus it was on a dark Wednesday afternoon at the end of October, some three months after Dr. Klarrion and Nancy had set up the lab, that a major breakthrough occurred.
Nancy entered the lab with a fresh pot of coffee. Setting it on a plate above the Bunsen burner, she brushed her shrinking breasts against Dr. Klarrion's arm. She also took a moment to appreciate his increasingly large, albeit flaccid, bulge.
Of course they had worn respirators since entering the site, removing them only to eat or drink. But these off times were sufficient: Dr. Klarrion's genitals had nearly doubled in size. And Nancy had become more masculine, growing both muscle and body hair.
Nancy also found herself increasingly attracted to Dr. Klarrion. The doctor was so absorbed in his research that he was oblivious to her advances.
Nancy's eyes were still fixated on Dr. Klarrion's bulge when he suddenly stepped back from the microscope, clapped his hands, and said, "Nancy! The sperm of the praying mantis has successfully penetrated your ovum! Congratulations. You're going to be a mother."
1/24/2025
The Pripyat They Remember
Was full of life
One of the best places
to live in the USSR
the amusment park
set to be dedicated on May Day
it would never open.
A night like any other
Until awoken
their lives flashing before their eyes
Literally
when buses finally came
They left for 'three days'
Never to return
Lives upended
by faulty reactor design
the lack of a containment building
slowly fading to obscurity
memories brought up
when radiation dose
causes reaction to the dye
used in TB testing
A government based
on lies and secrecy
blaming operators
Who were the best in the country
Set to get awards
and promotions
Attempting a test
No one else would do
They were set up for failure
Dyatlov cites the rulebook
They did nothing wrong
but this is distorted by Soviet lies
The remnants of the Soviet secret city,
Pripyat?
Reclaimed by nature
The Exclusion Zone
The bus rumbled down the deserted highway, the only sound the hum of the engine and the occasional crackle of the radio. I gazed out the window, watching as the landscape shifted from lush green forests to a barren wasteland. The sign on the side of the road read "Pripyat" in faded letters, and I felt a chill run down my spine. This was it, the infamous city that had been abandoned in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.
"Nia!" I called out, as she ran out of the bus.
She's always getting into mischief. I saw her, running off towards the ruins.
"Nia, wait!" I shouted, taking off after her.
Our guide, a gruff but kind-hearted Ukrainian man named Viktor, stepped in front of me. "Be careful," he warned, his eyes serious. "The radiation levels are still high in some areas. We need to stay together."
I nodded, feeling a surge of worry. I caught up to Nia, who was exploring a abandoned playground. I grabbed her hand, holding it tightly.
As we made our way through the city, I couldn't help but feel like I was walking through a ghost town. The buildings stood empty, their windows shattered, their walls cracked. The streets were littered with debris, and the only sounds were the rustling of leaves and the occasional bark of a wild dog.
We stopped in front of a abandoned apartment building. Viktor told us that this was where many of the city's residents had lived. I couldn't help but wonder what their lives had been like, what they had left behind.
As we explored the building, I stumbled upon a room that seemed frozen in time. There was a child's doll on the floor, a book open on a table, a pair of shoes discarded in the corner. It was as if the occupants had just gotten up and left.
But they hadn't just left. They had been forced to flee, to abandon their homes and their lives. The thought left me breathless, my heart heavy with the weight of their loss.
As we continued our tour, I couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness. The city of Pripyat was a testament to the devastating power of human error. But it was also a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit.
We left the city, quite. The sun was setting, casting a golden glow over the desolate landscape. It was a hauntingly beautiful sight, one that I would never forget.
I closed my eyes, letting the silence of the city wash over me. The only sound was the soft beep of the Geiger counter in my hand, a reminder of the secrets that this abandoned city still held. And as I stood there, I knew that I would never forget this place, this haunting reminder of the devastating power of human error.
Beware the Chernoyls; Cover Your Glibula!
The chernoyl, Chernobylus ridicularis, is a one-celled parasite that arose from spontaneous creation after the famous nuclear meltdown in Ukraine. It is based on radon, although it spews enantiomeric uranium isotopes. The scatter diameter for each 55-nanometer organism is about twenty feet, or about as far as you can run in a gulag before a bullet catches up with you.
Chernoyls tend to infect your glibula, which means you're fucked. It reverses the polarity of your hydrogen atoms, which is why getting an MRI scan cam make you explode. Because you depend on your glibula for about a dozen physiologic inanities, once you've developed glibulitis, you can kiss your modeling career goodbye.
NOTE: The glibula bank is running disastrously low. Remember, only you can designate yourself glibula donor on your driver's license. Help someone with a faltering modeling career!
Currently, there is no cure for glibulitis or infection with the chernoyls, but you can still protect others by abstaining from pearly ovule insertions, now the most frequent cause of infestation. Pearly ovules have also been implicated in anachronism and falling down.
Pearly ovules have an exquisite sense of humor, so they can die laughing, but it is theorized it would take a stand-up gig of about 100 hours to effect such an eradication, and what's funny after 100 hours?
It is not politically correct to reference the sex organs of people infected by chernoyls. (It's still, as they say, too soon.) How would you like it if your own sex organs were variegated into prismatic shards? You wouldn't, so be sensitive to the problem.
Chernoyls have also been implicated in manifest destiny, e.g., Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.
Currently, several anti-chernoyl medications are in Phase IV trials—if you can get past the taste. Chernot®, ChernBurn®, and Chernobyl-Never-Happened-Conspiracy® ("CherCon") aren't expected to hit the shelves for another three years, so don't ask your stupid doctor if it's right for you.
And while your shit still stinks, don't be concerned about it glowing in the dark. Only be concerned when it stops stinking.
The Disaster
Being born too late to experience the age of Chernobyl
Being born too early to experience the real change after Chernobyl
Chernobyl was the thrill that I remembered from the TV show
Somehow, I have the opportunity to feel the same in real life
Are we in a parallel universe?
What is the real disaster?
Radioactive materials spread across Europe
The habit of covering up forever remained in other part of the Earth
What is the real disaster?
Legacies
See it's a Justice League episode-- original run not the sequel-- where Green Lantern, Hawk Girl, and a third hero are transported into what reads as a fifties comic book and it is.
It was Green Lantern's favorite comic series.
An alternate world where the comic had existed, and continued to exist unchanged, even when according to the papers--
'PEACE TALKS DISSOLVE, WAR DECLARED.'
And the superheroes are mourned as tombstones. That too.
A child had been horrifically mutated into a psychic. A too big head, burnt looking skin, and one eye a bulbous mass compared to the other as an unbalanced slit.
He was ugly and repulsive.
He was also so sad.
Chernobyl was the first thought I'd had. To what incident the TV show had been alluding to. A world where Chernobyl or even WW2 had even worse consequences.
'Our world was already destroyed, we did that. But now we have a chance to rebuild.'
Turns out they'd meant to reference the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.