‘Incredible.’
‘Innit? Can you believe how beautiful they are?’
I can’t. I wonder if I’m dreaming.
‘Impossible.’
‘My first thought when I heard about ‘em. Yet here they are.’
We know about them from old folk tales. We didn’t believe in them any more than we did in air-conditioning. Typical Kit, nobody else would risk his life to prove the veracity of a rumour.
We marvel at the trees for a minute but we both know that the sun will fry us if we don’t seek shelter.
‘Kit,’ I say, ‘look at all that shade.’
Kit grins.
‘Wanna risk it?’
***
Written for Flash Frenzy, round 73, where it came third.
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Hey Sonya,
It would take me couple more readings to get it 😛
I wish you a great Friday,
Anand
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🙂 – hope you had a great weekend!
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Ah, we take it all for granted, don’t we. that lime green light that shines through spring leaves, kicking through drifts of copper leaves in the autumn. Let’s hope trees never become a fable in our life time.
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I’ve since changed my mind – I think trees will outlive us… They managed to stay around when the dinosaur went extinct, after all.
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I sincerely hope so. I think we’ll manage to bump ourselves off through disease or global hunger, so that shouldn’t affect the trees too much. It’s just a shame none of us will be around to see it when the trees take over again – imagine how beautiful the world will look.
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I would risk it! I love trees. A world where they are extinct due to our own (humanity’s) stupidity is horrifying. And infuriating
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I love trees, too. I’m pretty sure the trees will make it. I’m not so sure about us, though…
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just finished M Atwood’s Maddadam trilogy, not so sure about us either!
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Hey! I’ve nominated you for the Premio Dardos award! The link is here: https://welshshortbread.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/double-whammy/
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What a terrifying dystopia — although of course this is totally normal to them, making it even worse — evoked so subtly in so few words. Nicely done!
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Thank you!
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