“It's a rental.”
Han Solo* #quote
Every day is a maze of possibilities. Don't get lost because you
think you'll keep making wrong turns. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Alexander And The Ocean
Trees. Great grandpa kept trying to get me to understand what they
were until the day he died but I never really could get a clear image
in my head. However I could imagine them much better than clouds.
Even if I didn't understand his stories completely I still loved
listening. The surface sounded much more interesting than the ocean.
After going on about his stories great grandpa would say, “But
don't worry Alexander, you've got a wonderful life here!”
My ancestors started a project to colonize the ocean. Everything was
built on the surface and sunk below. Turbines provide power by
sitting right in the path of the powerful currents we live in. We
don't need the surface's Sun because of special lamps that can use that
electricity to create light that works the same. Genetically
engineered algae makes our food and recycles our air, like the trees
of the surface. The little city that I live in that we slowly use our
submarines and divers to gather materials and expand.
That's how my world came into being. And since we're self-sufficient
when the surface world stopped making contact, we've managed on our
own.
I want to be a diver as my job. I'm getting older and training for
a job is my next step in life. When I dive I want to be one of the
ones that explores further and further away from the city. It's a
tough job because you need to wear special suits, different from the
diving suits that people from the surface normally use, and spend an
hour in a pressurizing water chamber before being able to go outside.
But even if it hurts, I want to do it. Get out of our little metal
city.
Then maybe, just maybe I can help us explore far enough to figure
out how to get to the surface. And hopefully someday I'll get to see
a tree.
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