BEEP BEEP BEEP
“Did you hear that?” I asked my partner, the echo of our breathing ricocheting in our bodysuits.
“Hard to miss the obnoxious beeping noise.” He responded, surly as usual.
“You obviously don’t know what it means, if you’re not more excited.”
“Things ‘beep’ in our biosphere often.”
“But, we aren’t in the biosphere.”
“So?”
“That means the Biological Plant-life Indicator triggered something- “
“In this wasteland?”
“This used to be the largest National Park in the Southern Hemisphere.”
“Well now it’s- “
“Look!”
There it was, breaking through the broken ground, reaching for the sun, a plant. Life.
This story dramatically describes where we’re headed, without being preachy. We need more such writing. Keep it up!
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