“Dad, I am scared! There is so much green.”
“Don’t worry son, I am with you. Just stick to the fenced path.”
“But those creepers are climbing on the path – there see-“
“Stick to the middle sonny. Just a few more Hematite for dinner and we are done.”
“Dad, how did it get so green?”
“It’s those earthlings; since they came, they have spread these greens all over our planet. Few red pyramids are all that’s red left in our red planet. If anything goes wrong – you know where to go. We can still see the red pyramid from here.”
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100 word Flash Fiction written for Friday Fictioneers challenge dated 14 March 2014. It’s a weekly challenge organized by Rochelle Wisoff. This weeks challenge posed a difficulty in understanding the image. What looked like a red pyramid when the image is small came out to be the top of the canopy when seen in full size. But I decided to stick to the image that appeared to me on first look.
You can see the other Fictioneer’s take from the froggy link –
Imaginative take on the prompt – nice work.
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thanks Sandra !
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i agree with Sandra, very imaginative 🙂
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Thanks KZ ! 🙂
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Great story, Horus. That’s a clever turnaround to accuse us of turning everything green.
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🙂 thanks Karen for liking…
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We do have a tendency to ruin planets. Nice take on the prompt.
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very humane – isnt it! 🙂
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One man’s red is another man’s green…or something like that. I enjoyed that, Horus. Well done.
janet
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Thanks Janet ! 🙂
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ahh only if earthlings will do it in their own earth… 🙂
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We love ruining it for ourselves and for others.. dont we! 🙂
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Dear Indrajit,
I never thought of green as something to be feared. 😉 Nice one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Very very dangerous.. at least for those loving Red! 😉
Thanks for reading Rochelle !
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Those pesky earthlings …
Nice take – I enjoyed your story
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You bet they are pesky! thanks for enjoying it here… 🙂
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Ha!ha!Such a cute take from an alien’s pov-what is familiar to us may be fearsome to them great contrast between the two colours too-loved this original take Indrajit 🙂
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Thanks for liking this POV Atreyi ! 🙂
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🙂
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Good story and creepy – but if anyone could mess up a planet, it would be us! Nan
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you true that Nan!
Thanks for the read ! 🙂
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Hmmmm… very interesting! You sure do some out of the box thinking 🙂
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🙂 thanks for finding it interesting !!
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Good work. Maybe these aliens are allergic to grass. You never know. Maybe the people from Earth came there because they’d ruined Earth.Well written.
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🙂 Thanks Patricia.. those aliens love it red!
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Cute title to match your story.
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Thanks for liking! 🙂
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That really puts terraforming into a whole new light. Suddenly, we’re the invaders from War of the Worlds.
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Role reversal I guess ! 🙂
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