99 word prompt : tree
May 16, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that goes in search of trees. It can be one particular tree, a grove, woods, or forest. What makes the tree worth seeking? Go where the prompt leads!
If you want to participate, here’s the link: https://carrotranch.com/2019/05/16/may-16-flash-fiction-challenge/
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Space. Boring!
Most people have to share a small cabin with three other people. I get a 4 x 6 room. They want windows, but I don’t care to see what’s coming at the ship.
I spend my days cleaning floors, repairing worn machinery that creates our food, and thinking about my father’s Earth stories.
He died last year, on my 10th birthday… radiation leak in the engine section. The bastard didn’t die quick.
With his final breath he said, “I wanted to touch one last tree.”
If we find a habitable planet, the trees can have his ashes.
Oooh, lots of latent anger.
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Thanks for letting me know you saw that. 🙂 Hard to convey in 99 words.
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A worrying vision of the future. But I hope a tree is found.
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No one knows what the future holds. It may be anything from utopia to uninhabitable. People in the 18th century wondered if civilization would last until the 19th, but they only had cannons, not H bombs, nor did they understand that nature can be far more devastating than anything we throw at Earth. All it takes is a series of volcanic eruptions and we can have winter on Earth for years.
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I agree with you, in fact just this morning we were discussing this very thing.
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Wow, this one fritters with emotion at the breaking point. Love how this flash leaves so much unsaid and yet we can fill in the gaps through the emotion.
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Thanks. 🙂
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