In the wake of the Comet

Okay, so I've written three different short stories so far, and this is the only one I've really completed. And its not that long. But, here goes nothing: in the wake of the comet.
Note: its really an asteroid, but it sound better with comet

To his right ear sounded a faint buzzing, a noise that would immediately awake Randy Gales if it was any other day. Rolling over onto his side he glanced at the clock. 9:36 A.M, 7:27:24, the day when the world would stand still. And yet, when he glanced outside his apartment window, it was far from the doomsday scenario he would have pictured. Instead of a blood red sky there was a common morning haze: where gust of fire would have been where fluffy white clouds. The morning sun had just risen over the towers of Manhattan, casting a calming orange glow onto the streets below. it was just like any summer day in New York, with the exception that it was the freaken LAST day in New York. With a sigh, Randy pulled himself out of the bed and embraced his final hours on earth.

The world had first known of their doom three years ago. With NASA watching the skies for nuclear misses instead of prospective life-bearing planets, the doomsday devise gradually closed in on the tiny, vulnerable planet of earth until it actually passed through the orbit of Jupiter. And when the leaders of the world finally noticed the rock, it was too close to stop. Scientist calculated the exact freaken second of its impact onto the hills of northern Virginia, and estimated that the blast radius would reach as far as Atlanta and Quebec. It was, as some marveld, the largest body to enter our system in recorded history. Like that even mattered now that history had suddenly come to an abrupt and sudden end.

Within a year most governments had shut down, though China and France had managed to continue to function until a little over six months ago. The NYPD had shut down last months as riots intensified, and paper money became little more than kindling materiel. And yet, miraculously, this tiny pizza palace on the corner of times square had continued its business for free, supplying the best pizza in the world to valued customers. As Randy licked the last crumbs of crust off his plate before walking out the door (with a polite thank-you to Charlie) and into the chaos of the streets. People knelt in prayer on most corners, directly beside others who where partying the day away as their last hours slipped away from them. children cried on he side of the streets for their parents, who had either abandoned them due to lack of hope or had been trampled, stabbed, or shot by the mobs that flocked most streets these days. indeed, the only safe way to avoid death was, ironically, the alleyways, granted that you where in good terms with the gangs that called it to home.
Many had hoped to avoid the destruction by wandering into massive underground chambers that served as "shelters" for the oncoming storm. Like that would save them from a space rock half the size of Texas, Randy thought, as he walked past another entrance that opened to an expanse under Twin Towers Memorial Park. across the street, a group of boys half heartily dribbled a basket ball, not even bothering the take a shot. And yet as Randy walked past another building, an optimist, the ones that everyone wanted to strangle, protested that our destruction would only lead to the evolution of different species, and that it was all part of the course of the earth's cycle. farther across the street people simply walked over the corpses of a few poor souls who had the nerve to end their time before time officially ended.

And yet, even Randy's daily stroll through Manhattan gave him little comfort. As the day drew to a close, and as the final hour approached, Randy brought his tiny sailboat past Lady Liberty and pulled out that apple pie his mother had baked for him the night she got murdered by a group of doomsday fanatics. With ten minuted to spare, he grate fully licked the juice of his fingers, then stared into he night sky, a sky filled with a rainbow of colors dancing over the tranquil waters of New York Harbor. A smile playing on his lips, he reincounted the happiest days of his life: his first trip to Disney World, that perfect summer when he kissed his first girl, the time he caught his first fish on the shores of Price Lake. With a sigh, a examined his watch, and gazed into the night sky. in 73 seconds that tiny black dot would hit the hills of Virginia, and bring with it the obliteration of much of Manhattan. In a final act of retaliation, Randy brought his middle finger up tot he sky, to whatever spiritual being that would allow such an event to happen, then closed his eyes and waited for the sound. The sound that would start the beginning of the end.

Yeah, I just love depressing stuff. I would write more, but i'm kinda tired at the moment, and I need to study a bit for the EOGs tomorrow. But i want to know, what would you do on you last day on earth? would you pray? would you party and die laughing? Or would you be like me, like Randy in this story, and do the simple things in life: a game of basket ball, a long lunch at Olive Garden, and a finish to my life with a peaceful boat trip or a walk along the beach. Think about it.

"Everything we see or seem is just a dream inside a dream"
-Edgar Allen Poe