PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll
HOW DRY I AM
Mankind is a blight upon the face of the Earth. I believe the line in The Matrix which says Humanity is like a virus.
This was a nice little town, until someone drilled a large-bore water well. Even then, it was happiness and prosperity for thirty years – till the aquifer went dry.
Then there was no more water for drinking or manufacturing. The water-dome collapsed, the soil compacted, and entrances at ground level, now needed ladders to get up into. People moved away, plants and animals died, and the town, with its proud history and spirit, died with them.
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
great commemt on mankind’s profligate waste of resources.
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I was thinking about California drying up the Colorado River, as I wrote it. 😯 😦
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The most destructive animal on this planet yet we fool ourselves into believing we’re the most evolved. Another good story!
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Thank you. 🙂
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Intriguing … the virus analogy is thought provoking.
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Have you seen the movie(s)? Aside from the global destruction condemnation, they upset some Christians with their somewhat secular representation of a miracle-working Messiah. 😕
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I don’t think I saw The Matrix.
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Sad story! Alas, too true, I fear!
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The more people who become aware of the problem, the more likely it is that it can be prevented, or solved. 🙂
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Yes.
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Sad and true. Subdue the earth and dominate it. And when we’re done with this, we’re done.
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Darwin proposed ‘Survival of the Fittest.’ Many humans like to think, They’re It, but a hundred, or a thousand years from now, Earth’s caretakers may be cockroaches. 😯 😦
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We have many abandoned mining towns in rural Nevada where the gold dried up and so did the towns. This photo could be of any one of them. It’s strange to me how a town can just disappear. Good piece.
Tracey
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We have ghost towns here in Ontario, more of them than I had imagined. Most of them are in the hard-rock area of Northern Ontario. Company towns, now abandoned, about half from mining – iron, copper, cobalt. The rest, logging towns of pulp and paper conglomerates. The resources didn’t completely disappear, but obtaining them is now economically unfeasible. 😯
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The Matrix … one of my favorites. Nice story!
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I’d still take a blue pill….if someone would offer me one. 😆
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I liked The Matrix, too. That and Bladerunner are my two favourite sci-fi movies ever. Your story demonstrates the notion of the ‘human virus’ very well. We take what we want from the earth and refuse to consider the long term effects.
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When you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s difficult to remember that your original plan was to drain the swamp. 😳
I made sure to read Philip K. Dick’s book, before I saw how much/little the Bladerunner movie resembled it. 🙂
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And here comes fracking to add to the list. So till we move out to the planets heaven help nature.
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