Set your story in a world living with the consequences of a climate apocalypse.

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“The Last Meteorologist” by Joshie Nygaard

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I walked through the large glass doors, the peeling KLVC Las Vegas stencil now barely visible. I was greeted by a blast of hot air and the overpowering scent of industrial grade candles and sweat. I paused in the entryway, allowing my eyes to adjust to the gloom. Like any commercial building, the National Environmental Responsibility Agency (the agency created when NASA was dismantled and their scientists re-tasked with solving the impending climate disaster) had retrofitted the radio station with solar panels and a micro wind farm on the ro...

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“When the Sky Stopped Crying” by Eve Pen

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My brother told me the sky was once blue. He said that he used to go and look up at a beautiful light blue sea, with fluffy clouds to top it off. He said the ocean was once blue too and that it didn't try and kill you when you got near it. He said he used to swim in it before the world gave up. My brother said some nice, crazy things. And I believed him. Of course he wasn’t actually my brother. None of the people I called family were actually my blood. My father died on death day, my mother had me two months later and...

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“Inferno” by Princesa De Papel

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The heat was like the inferno was on Earth. The sun was a ball of light and tortured, and the cold air was non-existent. Even though we lived in bunkers, really deep on the ground, protected from everything, even what was supposed to warm us, the community could still feel the extreme warmth on the environment. The water that we used to wash ourselves was always boiling and the bathrooms were full of gas. The food could just easily become root and stinky, and that was a misfortune for all of us. I had been left with nothing days because the ...

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“The Herdsman. ” by Jindu James-Ibe

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The herdsman has lived his whole life off his livestock, he even believes that he was birthed by the first of his cows for the sole purpose of being her herdsman, and the herdsman of her children. He believes that after the world ended, and all that was left was her and others of her kind spread across different parts of the world (these ‘others’ are the livestock he now refers to as her children). That she had looked up to the heavens, reminiscent of the old days with tall green grass, when men with staffs guided their path and she was neve...

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“The Lost World” by A A

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Delicately the soft white snowflakes were descending from the glistening silvery sky. Malik spread his hands out to touch the falling blessing and felt a tickling sensation as the snowflake melted against his skin. It was beautiful to see the gray roads and the green pines get covered by the icy white blanket of snow. He wanted to stay and watch the glory till the last moment but was rudely awakened by the loud sound of obscenities that brought him back to the scorching reality of the present. Malik was 16 and worked with five other boys ar...

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“Dust in the cloud ” by Dumisan Khumalo

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Dumisani khumalo A people's culture is a people economy .What Silas ate ,where he lived ,and his interest were coming down as his crop failed . Silas hands had brought poverty on it's knees and brought up joy ,love and mercy.They raised poultry ,stock ,grew crops to eat ,trade ,and give out to others when they had more than enough. The hole in the sky had not started by then ,and there was plenty of water for use ,and water had not become an enemy nor had it any enemies . .Land no water to grow something,under the hot African sun. ...

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“As the Snows Fell” by Derek Lockhart

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The wind whipped unforgivingly against Marcus' cloak. He pulled it tighter around himself and trudged through the snow on his makeshift snowshoes, searching through the storm for any signs of shelter. This was the forty seventh day, fifteenth hour, twenty first minute- roughly - since he had seen another live human being. He had killed the last one. It was tragic, but done in self-defense. She had wanted his supplies in his pack. Or perhaps the meat on his bones, if she was desperate enough. Marcus tried not to think about her, because wh...

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“Forager” by Brittiany West

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“One hundred years ago, this world was ravaged by the disease of pollution. The waters became sludge where no life could live. Contaminants in the soil made it impossible to grow food. Earthquakes broke gas lines and brought down roadways. In the shortages that followed, mankind unleashed the Great War, a desperate battle for sustenance. Radiation from bombs and chemical warfare made the land virtually unrecognizable. As the air was fouled with fumes from war machines, some people began to change. Their skin, deprived of the life-giving pig...

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“Someday” by Elizabeth D

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Jessie rested her hand against the window pane, running her fingers along the peeling white paint as she stared at dry fields. Brittle brown stalks withered in the bright noon sun, shrinking from searing rays. The once green plants of spring had folded in on themselves three months ago, before true summer had even begun. Wind picked up dust, sprinkling it against the glass, rustling the fields, which from the angle of the first story of the house, seemed to go on endlessly in all directions. She knew the fields were not infinite and that the...

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“A night at the cinema” by Laura Villagomez

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I covered my face as I left the house. The wind today was so hot and strong, strong enough to make the old mills go round. It’s a shame those things don’t work anymore, they could be useful nowadays. I remember the stories of my grandma, how the mills helped them to produce electricity, preventing any kind of electric shortage. Now they’re just useless pieces of crap that no one wants, they don’t even make a good scene, besides, it’s pretty hard to see them from the distance considering the gray fog. The weather is so hot, it has bee...

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“The Reality of the Climate Apocalypse” by Chris Soe

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It had been 15 years since the beginning of the climate apocalypse. Today, there are few human beings living on planet Earth. The world had changed drastically over the 15 years. It hadn’t changed technologically, and instead, it’s now almost uninhabitable. The increase in temperature, the rise of sea levels, and the damage in the ozone layer was all but small parts of this change. It all started with global warming. People knew about it. But it was left unattended for far too long. Politicians denied global warming, saying we won’t have to...

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“Corpses aren't Contaminated ” by Judith Macha

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It’s been uhmmm… It has been how many days… one, two, three… was it a Saturday or a Sunday? Before the third? That makes it nearly seventy days. Or twice as much? I don’t know because nowadays I see in twos and threes. We always imagined the apocalypse to be badass; the sky a fiery bloody red, the sun blazing and the world would maybe stop spinning? And we would slowly run out of oxygen, and we’d go out like it was a movie. And and and…But that’s not the case. The sky is still bright blue, the sun is still shinning like it always has a...

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“Last Day of Earth ” by Aprill Ebejer

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Okay, so it’s not the end of the world. Oh—wait. It IS the end of the world. I pulled my thin sweater over my shoulders and peered out the living room window of our home. It was dark outside, and hot. It was always dark and hot. No one ever went outside anymore unless they wanted to shrivel up like a piece of beef jerky within minutes. How this could be when the sun never broke through the thick clouds anymore, I couldn’t tell you. But believe me, no one wants to go out there in that oven. Most of the time we stayed in our M...

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“The compulsory request” by Ishita Garg

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After so many years, we are finally coming back. Seeking is not human nature it needs a push and a reason to unleash. I was reading the letter from RAUB, the fabled organization. It was authentic, I made sure of it. They want to recruit me for Researching. Researching. A long time has passed hearing that word when an arrest warrant is not involved, thirty or forty years, maybe. It doesn’t feel as long as it is. They wrote, something threatening needs to be stopped and they want me to help them. But, there were no dates.The era of discov...

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“One Long Winter” by Alex L

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“One Long Winter”By Alex LapeI guess as a species, we’ve finally done it. We’ve finally found a way to screw up this planet and turn it into a giant revolving death trap in the middle of space. Good job, humanity. All we had to do was safely dispose of all nuclear weapons in the 2037 Atomic Accord which was five years ago. But nope, some idiot just had to mess that up, too. Why would Lady Luck ever make life THAT easy for humans, when someone can just mess up, detonate every nuke in the last payload that was meant to be shipped off to space ...

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Set your story in a world living with the consequences of a climate apocalypse.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 134 stories

“The Last Meteorologist” by Joshie Nygaard

“When the Sky Stopped Crying” by Eve Pen

“Inferno” by Princesa De Papel

“The Herdsman. ” by Jindu James-Ibe

“The Lost World” by A A

“Dust in the cloud ” by Dumisan Khumalo

“As the Snows Fell” by Derek Lockhart

“Forager” by Brittiany West

“Someday” by Elizabeth D

“A night at the cinema” by Laura Villagomez

“The Reality of the Climate Apocalypse” by Chris Soe

“Corpses aren't Contaminated ” by Judith Macha

“Last Day of Earth ” by Aprill Ebejer

“The compulsory request” by Ishita Garg

“One Long Winter” by Alex L

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a story that weaves together multiple lives through their connection to a particular tree.

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

Write about a community that worships Mother Nature.

Start your story with someone sitting on a crowded train and end it with them looking out over beautiful natural scenery.

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