OOD Readers Paradise - Reading Challenge Day 88
Good morning fellow bookworms. We express our utmost gratitude to our readers and would love more responses. For today's challenge, we want you to express your creativity through the segment,' Show your talent!!' You can write stories, poems, or anything else you like. Have fun fellow readers!!!
So dear bookworms, bring those bright colors flying out!!!
Your beloved bookworms
Aishwaryaa and Divyalakshmi
I am writing a story.
ReplyDeleteThe Worst World
Born in an intact underground compound, Rose and Lisa did not know ANYTHING
about the world above the turf. They grew up in the underground compound. Both of
them were bought up by a single parent. They had no idea about this, but above the
ground, it was the new ice age. The Earth was divided into three climate zones when
the ocean currents had shut down almost a century ago. The Northern Hemisphere
was a new ice age. Temperatures had been -75 for almost 50 years. The Southern
Hemisphere had turned into a drought and fire filled wasteland. Tornadoes, super
cells and every other manner of erratic weather covered this terrain. Once they were
old enough, they decided to go up to the superficial and know the Earth.
On a fine day, which seemed to look like night in the underground compound, they
both decided to use the shaft which was built for mining purposes. As children, they
had gone to various places trying to discover ways to get to the surface. Without
informing their mother, they used the shaft and came up above to the surface of the
Earth. They were aghast. They had never in their life, seen what was above the
ground, and now when they were seeing it, they couldn’t believe their eyes.
Both of them had always tried to envisage what the upper world may look like. They
had envisioned sunshine, perennials, delightful animals, butterflies, rainbows, clouds
and torrents. But now, when they were seeing it for the first time, it was unbelievable.
It was NOTHING like what they had imagined. They could see massive blankets of
snow on the ground ahead of them, little creatures shivering from the chill, flowers
succumbing, trees barely bearing fruit and snow clouds high up in the sky. They were
not prepared to look at such chilled climate above them.
Nevertheless, they decided to go farther, continue their jaunt into the world. Who
knew, what else would they have to see?
A few days later, when they walked a lot, they managed to reach somewhere into the
Southern Hemisphere, which they had thought to be much better than the Northern
Hemisphere. But, they soon discovered that they were completely wrong about that,
too. They had to be even more circumspect when walking here, because all sorts of
precarious things could be seen around them.
They saw murky, grey clouds in the gloomy sky (almost similar to the underground
compound, where they didn’t really get much of light), acid filled air, dwindling
flowers, cleavages in the ground ahead of them, trees bursting into conflagration,
lifeless animals lying all around, making the atmosphere look dangerous, and
heightened.
Rose and Lisa were inordinately discontented with what they were witnessing. They
couldn’t stand to see more of this climate taking over the Earth. But, what could they
even do? Seeing that they could do nothing, they went back to the underground
compound, where they had been all their life.
We may be young or old,
ReplyDeleteBut we must be bold,
Against the enemy untold.
We can’t go to malls,
Nor can we go to waterfalls,
Because this virus is a-scaring,
Sending our spines into a shivering.
If you have to go out, think twice,
Wear your mask, be wise.
After coming home, sanitise,
And wash your hands thrice.
COVID-19 is the name,
It is playing a hide-and-seek game.
By following the rules, we can ensure endgame