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I have a new idea~

Actually, it's not all that new, it's been sitting on my computer for a few months now but I haven't had a chance to get around to writing it. This little snippet of summary that I wrote is just pretty much the background, what happened in the past before I start writing the story.

It is a post-apocolyptic world; no creature has survived the horror that struck the earth many years ago. Not even plants managed to survive; no, they were in fact the first to die. Some virus struck the greenery, starting slowly but gradually making its way until large forests and vast savannah began dying out within days. Then the animals began dying out, as their source of food was the plant life on the planet. Bad things began happening to them as their life rotted away; humans were forced to kill them in fear of the virus becoming air-born and attacking them instead. With no animals to eat, no plants salvagable, the people turned to the world's scientists, hoping some type of chemically-engineered food would be able to save them. Within weeks, a few months they realized their folly as their last saved foods were used up. The scientists, at a loss, introduced a shot that would put them to sleep, and suggested putting select people into a form of cryogenic sleep-although that isn't what it is and that's not what it's called-until some sort of solution can be obtained. The first to go are the children; other countries, collaborating with the U.S. have begun to do the same. In the end the scientists realize that nothing can be done, that the virus affecting the world isn't something that can be cured; it's impossible. Just when they start putting the rest to sleep the virus suddenly mutates, attacking the humans through their air and water. It happens so fast; there is no escape and within weeks there are millions of bodies littering every street around the world. Within a year, there is no human left alive but those scattered within the pods that hold those asleep by whatever drug they were injected with. Hundreds of years pass; thousands of years and still they sleep, their bodies remaining unchanged no matter how much time passes. Gradually, the earth begins to repair itself, unidentified fruits and flowers popping up randomly and clearing the air of the noxious virus still inhabiting it. Over time the antidote, released through the plant-life's pollen, clears the earth completely and everything is safe again, but there are no lifeforms to procreate and make it a living planet once more.

So I'm wondering; should I write a prologue that explains a little about this, or continue with what I have written somewhere, where it just breaks into the story without any hint yet as to what happens? And also, what do you think? Would you enjoy reading it as I actually get around to writing it? By the way, the center focus of this story is an alien and human....

I like it. You should continue writing ^^

That is very neat. I used to write apocalyptic stories until I found I was no good, but that is a pretty enticing bit right there. I would be interested to see how that will turn up.