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In a dystopian setting where water is now a tightly controlled resource, write a short story about a character who lives under a hidden waterfall.
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In less than an hour, he’d likely be dead. And yet all he could think about were his boots. *Why*, he wondered, *had they taken his boots?"
The guards were frogmarching him through the cave. Every few steps one of Otis’s bare feet would slip on a deposit of algae or slime, and the guards would haul him upright again and bark insults or instructions in his ear. “Get up, traitor. It’ll be worse for...
My life is pretty boring. I wake up, look at my bed while contemplating life, and get some breakfast. Today I had some leftover corn. Boring. Everyday is the same.
Some days, my friend brings me food from the outside world. Sometimes she brings me ingredients to make cake or pie, and sometimes she beings me the fresh produce she bought. God I love her.
I walked over to the entrance of my home; ...
I have always though myself quiet lucky.
I live in one of the most blessed places in the entire kingdom, and I have complete solitude. What more could a girl ask for.
No one really knows when the drought happened,because it happened so long ago. Every family has a different rendition of how it happened. Some say it all magical dried up within a day others say it took over a year to trickle away....
The endless sands stretch further than distant lands. Crowned atop the dunes, a ramshackle city parts the dried blue sky from the grainy desert beneath. The buildings are composed of clay, rusting metal, and petrified wood; The sun grates against objects causing them to decay in malnourished ways.
Casting a shadow over the sand, A cloud drifts to the city. The people are ecstatic at the miracle. ...
As the world’s resource of water began to run out, I fortunately still had my Pet Cow.
But one day, my Pet cow, Whitney, disappeared from where it normally ate it’s grass.
Where could it have Gone?
After a while of walking around the area, I heard a faint munching sound. Wait…That sounds like Whitney chewing on green grass… but it can’t be! We haven’t been able to grow grass in the last 10 yea...
It was an accident! It really was! I found it on my daily stroll, I wasn’t specifically searching for it! It was on a hot summer’s day, when water was scarcer than ever. I had simply been on my way to work at the muggy office when I came across it. A small hole, one that no one would think twice of, hid treasures, and my watch as well. It had been flung off my wrist, and it had toppled right into ...
I’m lucky to be alive. I have a secret what is more precious then oil or food its water. The human body consists of water. In my den a secret aquifer i am able to use water to grow food, wash and bathe. The earth is hot outside dry as the desert. I cannot venture outside only at night its cooler and biker gangs only roam during the day time. I venture out at night scavenge for spare parts keep an...
The pitter, then patter. It’s the familiar but distant sound of her feet. They echo off the walls, traveling down the winding tunnels to inform me of her coming. She’s a ways off yet… I think she has just jumped down into the gulley outside my niche. A break in the normal pattern of drip, drip, dripping draws me alert, and I raise my head towards her.
Her breath steadies, then she gently says, “G...
it was under the impalpable deep emerald water that her sanctuary grew. A kingdom of silence, a part of the world that belonged only to her, a tangle of secrets and vines. Water ran across her arms and pooled at her feet, it took up little nooks and crannies sprouting unusual blooms about the place, it wriggled into the cracks between rocks and grew mould at the foot of each stalagmite. Dried herb...
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