Land Grab
written by: S.R Malone
Blackened clouds pressed down on sulphur skies.
As we trudged forward, the ground became softer. We noticed the tight soil stopping, and the slack, plastic-laden ground beginning.
My comms unit crackled to the tune of a dead global network. Adverts for extinct products— junk, like the terrain.
Black towers loomed on the horizon.
The stinging gale rattled them as we neared, their rusted iron frames groaning.
“You wonder what these turrets were trying to keep out,” I murmured. The dried-up seas beyond held rusted barges in outstretched hands.
I had seen enough.
I radioed the survey council, “Earth remains uninhabitable.”
S.R Malone is a science fiction writer living just outside Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been published in Synthetic Reality Magazine, 365 Tomorrows and Entropy-Squared. When he is not writing or reading, he likes to spend time with his family and their dog, going for long walks and outings.
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