This is a short story I just wrote up for a flash fiction contest for the Short Story and Fiction Society (SSFFS). The prompt was the following picture:
Photo: http://www.nature-places.com/15-most-amazing-ghost-towns/
Patience is a Virtue
I’m patient, as befits all immortal beings. Urgency is such an undignified concept. I open my embrace to let my children be carried by the wind. One tiny grain, then another and another. Always moving, always flowing like the stars whence I came. The meteor that brought me to this once blue piece of glass in the skies became my womb.
Like all babies, I was born hungry. And thirsty. Everything I touched, I converted to more of my children. I drank the seas, then the rivers and the lakes, then the sap from the trees and the blood from the screeching ones’ veins.
They fought me, of course. I didn’t mind. They planted trees, impregnated…
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed the story!
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You’re very welcome Nicholas! @v@ ❤
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