Inklet #71: Bs By Bioluminescent Light

This week’s Inklet is one I wrote for a course a couple of years ago, based on an article I read about the decline of the insect population. I’d been expecting to write in response to one of the other articles we’d been given, but as I sat down to write, the insect population one was what grabbed my writer brain’s attention. So we ended up with a slightly strange, quiet little sci fi story set on another planet after humanity left Earth behind.

She waits alone on the dark park bench, mi...