Write a story in which an endangered species (of plant or animal) plays a central role.

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“Mama Bear's Journey ” by Marianna Mills

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The frozen ground thunders as my giant paws walk, it is Spring now, I am looking for food for myself and my cub. She was born while I hibernate for nine months and not eating - a long time to go without food and nursing my little one. I live in Alaska, near the Arctic Ocean, and comb the shores looking for seal or dead whales that might wash up. I also eat seaweed in the summer now, something new I discovered. You see, I need 20,000 calories a day or so to store as fat in my body for the winter. My baby is six months old now, and he will sta...

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“Venus and Mars” by Evi T

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“Daddy, daddy, look! It’s eating!” the little girl shouted, pointing frantically at the confinement.“Shhh, honey you’ll scare him.” said the girl’s father. A badge was hanging around his neck, displaying with big, bold letters the word DIRECTOR. “He’s very tired from the transportation.”“It’s a boy, daddy?” the girl asked, not really caring about her father’s plea for silence. “How do you know?”“Well…” the Director sighed in defeat “Do you see the mane around his chin and neck? That’s one way to tell them apart from females.” He walked up to...

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“Stars that Bloom at Midnight” by Opal Knight

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*The flower mentioned is the Kadupul Flowers or Queen of the Night which only blooms around midnight and withers before dawn. The flowers die even faster when picked. This short lifespan is the main reason the flower is endangered.*A girl ran through the forest, brambles catching on her dress pale blue dress as tears streamed down her cheeks. The moon looked down on her through the branches of the trees, it was almost at its peak, its moonlight making her tears glow like drops of liquid silver. Finally the moon reached the middle of the sky,...

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“Endangered” by Chris Rohe

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“It’s a fact MS1, it’s going to hit us, and the outcome is certain: Planetary extinction.” The image on the large screen scrambled then came back crisp. Major Deaton of Earth Solar System Command stared through the screen at a group of 20 men and women within the communications room of Mars Station 1. They all gasped. Silence filled the room, and everyone stood in shock. The Major continued, “So we estimate the impact in…out …months.” “Damnit! The approaching asteroid is already causing interference with communications,” Jessica’s voice boom...

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“Georgia Asters” by E.C. Nickelson

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"Look over there!" The young blonde mother, Poppy, pointed to the correct cluster of purple flowers, in the open green field, to guide her four-year-old daughter. "Flowers! Pretty flowers!" Grabbing her mother's hand, she ran to the purple-hued clusters as fast as her small legs would allow her to. With one tiny, chubby fist, she yanked one of the flowers up until the roots came out. "Uh-oh. Mommy, I broke it. I broke it." She held the flower up to her mother and turned her teary sky blue eyes to her mother's baby blue ones. Laughing, she ...

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“The Cure” by Rani Jayakumar

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They said this day would come, but they never really believed it. When they started wearing masks, they said it would go back to “normal” eventually, but instead we reached a new, devastating normal. The world population is unsustainable - at nearly 20 billion, we are overcrowded. Forests are gone, except for a few rare stands constantly battling those trying to plunder them. We grow food in tall buildings hydroponically, and the question of being vegetarian or not is moot. Where would a cow graze? Who has the space for a chicken, much les...

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“I'm an old baobab tree” by NK Hatendi

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I am the baobab tree that shelters Mbuya Nyatsuro, an old woman whose hut is in the middle of an African compound. The villagers think I am a strange-looking tree, yet I have been their source of life in all seasons for as long as I can remember. Mbuya is a widow who minds her own business in her lean-to hut, resting precariously against my large tree trunk. Children call me all sorts of names, including the ‘upside-down tree’ because when I shed my leaves, I look as if a giant has uprooted and replanted me upside down with my branches resem...

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“The Traveler's Way” by Amarah Friedman

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There is a tortoise walking through blackberry bramble. Her name is Genesis. She’s wondering when the world will change.She’s been here since the beginning, wandering through time content, serene.Genesis is pleased with her role and happy with her lot. She’s seen trees live and die, empires rise and fall, species come and go. Through it all, she’s wandered the borders of now and never, here and there, life and death. She’s guided many travelers along their way.Genesis is patient and calm and loves eating Etoi plants, which grow in tall stalk...

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“Siberian Tiger. ” by Lee Doe

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CN: poaching Snow, the fine powder falling like microscopic feathers drifting in a slow horizontal pattern. The only disturbance in the spotted whiteness on the concrete path being footprints, Shelly's. She hurried across the zoo grounds, a backpack bouncing up and down on her shoulders. It was night, the only reason she could tell was the cold that was left in the absence of the sun. No stars were visible this deep in the city. The wet sound of water lapping against the concrete beach alerted her that she was here. Fingers pres...

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“The End Of The Vegan Sheep” by Florian Wolf

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"We are not evil. We want to remove a mistake we made," the media spokesman of Not-Evil-Biochemicals Inc. told the audience of journalists. "Who even had this weird idea? I heard about many things, but nobody tried to create a vegan sheep that is alive and out of potato salad!" One expert of the pastoral magazine Sheep Dies In Darkness asked him. "Well, the scientists who lead the project are German; we as well had no chance to get sauerkraut, so we were kind of in a bind, you know." "This is interesting to know, but certainl...

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“Misha” by Jenna Remacle

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I am Misha, a Mountain Lion, when you look at me many turn away, scared as maybe I would jump at you baring my teeth for my own pleasure. Right now I live in a small pack slowly decreasing from humans. We don’t want to hurt each other, but we both get scared, causing both species to attack. I’m not even a year old and still have seen many humans get killed and kill our pack. Mom says to stay away from the pack that hunts and gets food for us. Our population is rapidly decreasing, we need help and as you can probably guess, we're not getting ...

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“Never Escaped” by Peanut Das

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I have always been a good hunter, since I was born. I've never missed a target, ever. Of course, a lot of my skill came from being a Sunda Tiger. But I was the ablest of my streak. I had a special technique. Once I caught a sniff of prey, I would creep through the grasslands, hiding quickly when it looked up. I would keep my eyes on the prize, and my nose and ears on it too. I would stay far enough from the animal so that it couldn't detect me, but close enough that I could pounce and pin it down. I hardly ever had to chase my prey, but when...

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“Emma” by Frank Delgado

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Word count 1637 Emma The steady drum beats of heavy footsteps echoed in the rainforest as a giant elephant approached Vida Neva. He was on his way to destroy, pollute, and put an end to life, as they knew it unless something could be done. If only they could stop him. But how? He was taller and stronger than all of the villagers combined. The ants called a meeting to develop a ...

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“Christmas with The Jungle Men” by David Target

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I don't like the word 'animal' and I don't like the word 'beast.' Both can be used in derogatory terms and so, therefore, don't do justice to other species. Similarly, I don't like the word 'humane' for it suggests that humans always act superiorly to other species, whereas in truth we are the parasites of the planet. For this reason, my favourite word has to be 'orangutan'. It is the only name we have for another species that attributes a status of equality between us and them. It derives from the Indonesian 'orang' meaning 'man' and 'hutan...

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“Endangered species (Of plant or animal ) plays a central role ” by A_20_Samiksha Korake

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Plants and animals maintain the health of an ecosystem. And, when Species become endangered it’s a sign that an ecosystem is out of balance. But why does this matter? Well, ecosystem are groups of plants and animals that are found in the same area and interact with each other. These interactions make up and maintain the environments we know today – like rainforests, mountains and savannahs. But the balance within an ecosystem isn’t always easy to maintain: the loss of one species often triggers the loss of others. In Un...

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Write a story in which an endangered species (of plant or animal) plays a central role.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 94 stories

“Mama Bear's Journey ” by Marianna Mills

“Venus and Mars” by Evi T

“Stars that Bloom at Midnight” by Opal Knight

“Endangered” by Chris Rohe

“Georgia Asters” by E.C. Nickelson

“The Cure” by Rani Jayakumar

“I'm an old baobab tree” by NK Hatendi

“The Traveler's Way” by Amarah Friedman

“Siberian Tiger. ” by Lee Doe

“The End Of The Vegan Sheep” by Florian Wolf

“Misha” by Jenna Remacle

“Never Escaped” by Peanut Das

“Emma” by Frank Delgado

“Christmas with The Jungle Men” by David Target

“Endangered species (Of plant or animal ) plays a central role ” by A_20_Samiksha Korake

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