Short story (WC 331) First Person Plural POV
Last February, I enlisted in an online writing course. I had so much fun that when the opportunity to retake the course presented itself. I couldn't pass it up.
For warm-up assignment, we were presented a picture of an old abandoned rollercoaster. It sat in the middle of a forest. Trees had grown in and out of its humps. The only rule was a WC no more than 500.
Mine has 331 and I used First Person Plural POV.
No title*. (If anyone has an idea, please speak up!)
It didn't take long for nature to take over. Once the last human died, and no one was left to maintain the hideous buildings, the trees soon reclaimed their habitats. Only vestiges of Earth's past remained. Old skeletons of constructions now melted gracefully with the décor and offered shelters for the smaller critters.
We didn't take great pleasure in accomplishing this task, but our job was done. Humans wouldn't destroy anything anymore. They had their chance and yet refused to take it, oblivious to their incoming doom.
Too bad, but something had to be done.
Millions of years ago, we risked everything to come here. Finding the right meteors hadn't been easy. Many of us died before we reached our destination where we lived peacefully until the Homo sapiens appeared. At first, we were happy to share our home, yet they ignored us, even killed many of us. So we decided to keep them in check by making their lives miserable. But something happened. Something we didn't foresee. Unlike the dinosaurs, they multiplied rapidly and soon they were billions. With each generation, they needed more room, devastating acres upon acres of land, thus leaving creatures big and small without shelters.
We couldn't let this barbaric species go on and destroy all life on the planet especially now that they had discovered space travel. Soon their detrimental habits would have spread to other worlds and more would have suffered. More would have died. In the end, getting rid of them was a small price to pay.
You see; humans made a fatal mistake when they discounted us. They never saw us coming. We looked harmless. But naïve we were not. We understood strength was in numbers. We suffocated some, poisoned, or starved others until none were left. Together we prevailed and proved them wrong.
Pollution and mindless killing are now a thing of the past. We, the flora of Earth, took our world back and we intend to keep it. So invaders…beware!
For warm-up assignment, we were presented a picture of an old abandoned rollercoaster. It sat in the middle of a forest. Trees had grown in and out of its humps. The only rule was a WC no more than 500.
Mine has 331 and I used First Person Plural POV.
No title*. (If anyone has an idea, please speak up!)
It didn't take long for nature to take over. Once the last human died, and no one was left to maintain the hideous buildings, the trees soon reclaimed their habitats. Only vestiges of Earth's past remained. Old skeletons of constructions now melted gracefully with the décor and offered shelters for the smaller critters.
We didn't take great pleasure in accomplishing this task, but our job was done. Humans wouldn't destroy anything anymore. They had their chance and yet refused to take it, oblivious to their incoming doom.
Too bad, but something had to be done.
Millions of years ago, we risked everything to come here. Finding the right meteors hadn't been easy. Many of us died before we reached our destination where we lived peacefully until the Homo sapiens appeared. At first, we were happy to share our home, yet they ignored us, even killed many of us. So we decided to keep them in check by making their lives miserable. But something happened. Something we didn't foresee. Unlike the dinosaurs, they multiplied rapidly and soon they were billions. With each generation, they needed more room, devastating acres upon acres of land, thus leaving creatures big and small without shelters.
We couldn't let this barbaric species go on and destroy all life on the planet especially now that they had discovered space travel. Soon their detrimental habits would have spread to other worlds and more would have suffered. More would have died. In the end, getting rid of them was a small price to pay.
You see; humans made a fatal mistake when they discounted us. They never saw us coming. We looked harmless. But naïve we were not. We understood strength was in numbers. We suffocated some, poisoned, or starved others until none were left. Together we prevailed and proved them wrong.
Pollution and mindless killing are now a thing of the past. We, the flora of Earth, took our world back and we intend to keep it. So invaders…beware!
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