Tag: Humanity
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IT IS ENOUGH
It isn’t much, but it’s more than most have now. It is a roof and solid walls. The oil lamp will give me light during the nights. There is no radio or television or computer, but I have paper and pencil. It is hard to write from my imagination. What I have seen in the…
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GREEN ENERGY
The internal combustion engine is long gone. Electric cars are on the way out too. Soon all our vehicles will be plant powered. Garden centres are the new gas stations. Pile the greenery into the tank and off we go, leaving a trail of mulch pouring from the exhaust behind us. Tankers collect the discarded…
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RESET
The drought lasted through the summer. Trees and plants shriveled and died, so did a few thousand vulnerable people and animals. Everyone waited for The Rains to end the suffering. Anything that could collect water was set out in readiness. Watering cans hung from tree branches, buckets lined pavements, plastic bottles sat on window sills.…
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FOR OUR OWN GOOD
The bars appeared overnight. We didn’t notice until Bill left the house for work and walked smack into them outside the front door. The Presidential decree came soon after. Lockdown again, only this one enforced by steel cages. A strong rebuke: until we could all learn to behave for the greater good, we’ll remain behind…
Iain Kelly 