Five Sentence Fiction: "A Word Of Warning"

"This will all be city, one day."

"Oh?"

"Everything will be city, arctic to tropics, tendrils reaching out into the ocean and spiny spikes into the sky, a sprawling nest lousy with humanity. The very Earth will groan under its weight."

"You're a real downer, mister time-traveler, you know that?"

10 comments:

  1. The sad face of changing mother Earth, nice one for the prompt :)

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  2. A very different approach to the prompt. Nice read!

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  3. lovely approach to the prompt, David...
    Cheers, Archana :-)

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  4. Wanting to know what comes next - it burns us, but heck, I really wouldn't like to find out. Just focus on now, and trying to make whatt we leave behind as good as it possibly can be.

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  5. And the very earth will groan under its weight.

    The earth one day will not be able to bear our burden of wrongs.

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