The Aftermath is an unpublished novella by Stephen King that was begun in 1963 when he was just 16. The 76 page (200 pages by today's standards), 50,000 word manuscript describes life after a nuclear war; it was written at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and at the same time he was beginning Getting It On (later to become Rage). It is currently stored among Stephen King's papers in the special collections of the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine.[1]
Armageddon was August 14, 1967, the current year is 1993, and people are intent on survival and little else.