My second Flash Fiction contest entry. Check it out from Charli at the Carrot Ranch for details of this week’s 99 word challenge and join in! My entry follows below.
Turn Back
I bathe in the forest, hidden under a canopy. Jaguars, grizzlies and reindeer approach, bringing the jungle, the forest and the tundra with each step. I eat a banana for breakfast; some nuts and berries for lunch. For dinner, a polar bear offers me fish.
A crane approaches and pecks the air above my head deliberately.
“This is not yours, human. You have not taken care of any of it. Take your punishment and go.”
I stir and exit the forest, my clothes pinching tightly around me. It appears we’re still banned and setting fires.
Awwe, what a brutal fall to reality.
A dystopian environmental tale; a glimpse at what could be and what we can lose.
Indeed.