Friday Fictioneers 14 March 2014 : Green Pollution

copyright – Adam Ickes

“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 –

29 responses to “Friday Fictioneers 14 March 2014 : Green Pollution

  1. Imaginative take on the prompt – nice work.

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  2. i agree with Sandra, very imaginative 🙂

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  3. Great story, Horus. That’s a clever turnaround to accuse us of turning everything green.

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  4. We do have a tendency to ruin planets. Nice take on the prompt.

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  5. One man’s red is another man’s green…or something like that. I enjoyed that, Horus. Well done.

    janet

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  6. ahh only if earthlings will do it in their own earth… 🙂

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  7. Dear Indrajit,

    I never thought of green as something to be feared. 😉 Nice one.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

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  8. Those pesky earthlings …
    Nice take – I enjoyed your story

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  9. 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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  10. Good story and creepy – but if anyone could mess up a planet, it would be us! Nan

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  11. Hmmmm… very interesting! You sure do some out of the box thinking 🙂

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  12. 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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  13. Cute title to match your story.

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  14. That really puts terraforming into a whole new light. Suddenly, we’re the invaders from War of the Worlds.

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