The Last New Year

            On New Year’s Day 2014, the Earth’s came to a halt following a meteor impact.  The effects weren’t immediately noticeable, and NYC revelers still dropped the ball, despite the fact that it was still dusk out.  Then things got worse.  The dark side of the Earth plunged into brutal freezing winter, and the hot side, the America side, became a barren desert wasteland.  Only a small portion of the planet, the dawn/dusk circumference, remained livable, but became perpetually besieged by horrendous storms.

            Now, five years into 2014, people still struggle to live on America’s east coast, between the central desert wasteland, and the mostly frozen Atlantic ocean.  The gulf is a pretty nice place but for the never-ending hurricanes, but then, what’s new?  Searching the desert for food, a young couple find an old man with knowledge of a plan to restart the rotation of the earth, a plan started the year of the disaster.  He tells them that there were massive rockets installed around the globe and that many of them are still manned, but that in order for them to be effective, all of the operators must be notified to fire them at the same time.

            So the couple begin a voyage up the destroyed east coast in an attempt to find an operational radio tower which they could then use to orchestrate the plan to get the world back on track.  And all the while they are hampered by natural obstacles, by people who distrust their motives, doomsday cults, and wild animals gone even wilder.  But if they succeed, a new day, and in fact a new year would dawn (literally) for mankind.