Government initiatives can only help insure that humanity as a whole survives. Many people, especially the poor and those without “vital skills” are left to find their own ways to survive. And some do.
9.
This college campus has all of its buildings connected by tunnels and all of the roofs covered in solar panels. We'll set up indoor farms, bring in more solar panels, and make this place our own artificial environment.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 4, 2019
Who's with me?#microfiction #scifi
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10.
In my head, I know it's structurally sound, but I couldn't live with thousands of tons of rock above my head instead of open sky.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 5, 2019
So I got them to take my sister and her family instead.
I'll take my chances up here, where I can see the sun.#microfiction#scifi
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11.
By the time you return, the populations of the domed and underground artificial environments will already be selected.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 6, 2019
But the Europan government has decided to offer permanent residency with a path to Europan citizenship for any who would like to stay.#microfiction#scifi
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12.
Each generation of my family has lived in a different country.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 7, 2019
We have faced disaster after disaster.
Now, the only place left to flee is these enclosed cities.
They tell me I can't come in, but they told my forbears the same, and they always got in.#microfiction#scifi
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13.
Now, the river is dried up and the scientists say the sun is killing us, giving us cancer and making us infertile.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 8, 2019
But our country cannot afford to build domes and caves like America and Europe, so we must try to survive this dying world they created.#microfiction#scifi
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14.
We will build new cities for this watery world.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 9, 2019
Cities that float, that migrate with the seasons, up and down the coast.
We'll save thousands, tens of thousands, the government would leave behind to die.
Welcome to Pacifica, a new nation for a new world.#microfiction#scifi
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15.
"At first, my choices were easy: of course I included all the bio and ag experts I can get.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 10, 2019
After that, though, it was which qualified person had two kids instead of one.
I left kids to die out there.
Anyway, another."
"I'm cutting you off, sir."
"Okay."#microfiction#scifi
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16.
Now, the government has come.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 11, 2019
They've taken the mine that helped us live, that killed us, and turned it into an underground city.
Not a single person whose parents dug those tunnels will live there.
We will be left to fend for ourselves, as always.#microfiction#scifi
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17.
So, like ancient Christians fleeing the wrath of the emperor, we descend into the Catacombs.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 12, 2019
They have been cleaned up and expanded, and the corpses have been removed.
Still, I can't shake the feeling that this is a tomb, and we'll never come back out.#microfiction#scifi
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