(Author's Note: I've always wanted to try a story made of nothing but dialog. I hope it doesn't seem like a lazy contribution...)
by Elizabeth Murphy
Where is our Earth going?
“Oh, man, I haven’t been home for years!”
“Yeah, I know! It looks so different, huh?”
“Yeah, it does… that’s weird. I don’t remember that hotel being there.”
“Me neither… it’s kind of ugly. Wasn’t there a field there before?”
“Aww, yeah! I remember that! It was so pretty and green… I saw some bunnies
there a long time ago…”
“They probably aren’t there anymore…”
“Nah, not there. Huh, that’s sad… maybe the old park is there!”
“The old park? Oh yeah, that place! Yeah! It should be right over… there…”
“What did they do to it?”
“It’s… apartment buildings…”
“Why would it be apartments? This town can’t be THAT big…”
“But that’s what’s there now. Ugh, that sucks!”
“I know! I liked that park…”
“Well, maybe the old lot is still there.”
“The lot that was behind out house before? The one with all the pretty trees?”
“Yeah, that HAS to still be there! There was such fresh air back there! They
can’t have cut that down!”
“Yeah, let’s go!” …
“… Oh… my god…”
“They didn’t…”
“My god, they did. They cut those trees down. How could they?! Those gave us a
lot of nice clean air! That’s what this town was famous for! Having so many
trees that gave us clean oxygen, and the farms…”
“Maybe that’s drawing tourists, so they’re industrializing…”
“Yeah, industrializing, all right! Look at that factory! It’s spewing all sorts
of nasty chemicals into the air…”
“Thanks for destroying our ozone!”
“Oh man. This is terrible. All of our pretty green plants are disappearing…”
“Those were beneficial, too! They gave us clean air!”
“I bet those factories are polluting our water as well.”
“I’m kind of glad I don’t live here anymore if that’s the case. Poisonous water
is definitely not fun to drink.”
“Ugh, there’s probably a bunch of landfills where our farmland used to be.”
“Landfills? If we fill the Earth up with landfills, we won’t have any place to
live!”
“I know. This sucks. At least we recycle at home.”
“Yeah, we recycle. We aren’t adding to the garbage in the world.”
“This place isn’t totally unredeemable, right?”
“Nah, I think if we all start recycling and being aware of our pollution, the
whole world will change eventually.”
“Eventually… easier said than done.”
“Stop being such a pessimist! We’re helping just be recycling, aren’t we?”
“But just us…”
“Not just us! Other people all over the world are recycling too. That’ll add up
soon.”
“All right, I guess it won’t hurt…”
“Of course not. Come on, let’s go home.”
“Yeah, homeward bound.”
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