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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020
Submitted to Contest #60
The year is 7020. All ice on earth has melted. The planet is officially ice free. The air became toxic, polluted with all sorts of chemicals. Over time our human lungs could no longer take in oxygen. With all the continents deep under water our bodies eventually mutated to support life below the sea that was now our world. Most of us lived in caves. The water was no longer cold in any part of the world. The government had fallen and the people were self-governing for a time. However, over time it re-established itself and things were much wo...
Submitted to Contest #59
I first became aware of how things worked when I was six. My father had died and my mother was destroyed. After he passed my mother began drowning in her emotions, literally. We live in a world where if you allow your emotions to overwhelm you then you begin to drown. You don't die, you just feel like you're dying. The event left my mother mentally scarred. She was never the same again, like an empty shell of who she once was she did nothing more than exist. From that moment on I was determined to be strong. I wanted to be stronger th...
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