Blog tagged as Creative ficton

I heard David Attenborough on the TV –

Says the planet needs diversity.

Multiplicity, complexity, plurality of form

Makes the norm

For the ecosphere,

It seems.

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They are 11 when it starts. Too early, too scary.

The body that had held them, played with them, had fun with them

Begins to

Betray them.

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It is barely six in the morning, and the acrid mist already hangs low enough to obscure the dome of St Paul’s. The sky is only set to thicken as an ever increasing amount of coal fires are lit; perhaps ten per household in freshly blackened grates. There is no wind to carry the fumes, so all is stil...