Funkhouser's Law of the Power of the Press
The quality of legislation passed to deal with a problem is inversely proportional to the volume of media clamor that brought it on.

My (less than 55 words) short story, tagged by Sidharth.

Somebody may have already read it, though.

A nuclear holocaust in the near future. Everybody and everything had been wiped out, except a man inside his hut.

There was a knock on the door.

And I am tagging
Wtfdude
Twin Gemini
Shobha
Saumya
Blythe Spyryt
Reiya