*Work in progress*

This is very much so work in progress [started a little over an hour ago] so please hold off on any comments regarding punctuation or the particulars of sentence structure. I must admit that I don't really like this piece [yet] but I'm forcing myself to sit down and just write without regard as a sort of mental exercise I guess. I'll pick this up again later, for now I have to dart off to work.

When the sun finally fizzled out the whole of the world was thrust, almost instantly, into an immutable darkness. The moon went black without the sun's telling luminosity exposing its features, and the only evidence of its existence was a migrating void in the star speckled night's sky. The irony was in the fact that this occurrence took place on the tenth anniversary of the World States ''Bold Initiative'' act. An act calling for the abolishment of the drilling for and use of fossil fuels. Drilling so deeply was deemed too invasive and damaging to the New World's beloved deity, Terra or Earth Mother, thus resulting in the banning of Geo-thermal energy only three years after Bold Initiative was passed. The new act was titled ''Spare Mother's Heart'' Most of the worlds power needs where thereafter satisfied by solar panels.

The New World States [I'll explain for history's sake] or NWS as it's commonly refereed to, was formed in 2012 as a means to create a coalition that would counter the predicted end of the world. The NWS quickly set to work establishing – what would shortly become a full fledged religion – an order of rules and regulations intended to promote the integrity of the planet and civilization in general. Apart from the ecological protections introduced, the words ''person'' and ''people'' were replaced with ''earth'' and the Earth was thence called ''Earth Mother,'' ''To incite an unprecedented connectedness of the world,'' it was said.

All the earth of the world gasped in unison the day the sun gave out. The New World had failed them, more so even than the old. Many claimed the sun died of negligence, the earth had forgotten the sun and the sun, having been the center of attention for centuries, lamented the return to the ancient ways of an ethnocentric earth. After a decade of being passively utilized and taken for grated, the sun simply gave up. No super nova, no implosion, just a subtle crackle followed by a fizz. Mother Earth was consumed by the frigid, tenebrific universe.

Earth everywhere struggled to find hope in these [excuse the pun] dark times. Some fervently began worshiping the sun by partaking in rituals that involed setting themselves or others on fire [damn, more puns]. In short, Mother Earth rapidly desended into chaos as a glacial cold crept into the hearts of earth and Earth Mother alike.