Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-5614678-20160909101713/@comment-28266772-20160909154458

Personally I would agree that the simplest and most effective way of giving this substance would be a quirky twist. Reading this I thought the story might reveal one of the following two twists;

1) The narrator was human but had lived through human civilization and was now wandering a separate civilization that had risen up after us.

2) The narrator was the remnant of a far older non-human civilization and had survived his own species' downfall and was now wandering our own, possibly as a strange sort of boogeyman.

I mention these because it can be useful to know what expectations your stories create as people read them.