Writing Exercise - Prompt 1
Feb. 5th, 2007 05:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athersgeoPrompt: They didn't even care...
They didn't even care that the Earth had exploded. They just carried on partying as if nothing had changed. Susie couldn't quite manage to comprehend how they could do that. Their entire home was gone and yet all these people were interested in was when or how they were going to get their next drink. It made her sick.
True, none of them had ever seen Earth; they had all grown up on Alpha Centauri Prime. But still; it was the mother planet and one day she'd hoped to go there and visit - see the places where her family had come from and see some of the historic sites she'd only so far read about.
But it was now too late.
Sol had turned supernova and Earth was no more.
They didn't even care that the Earth had exploded. They just carried on partying as if nothing had changed. Susie couldn't quite manage to comprehend how they could do that. Their entire home was gone and yet all these people were interested in was when or how they were going to get their next drink. It made her sick.
True, none of them had ever seen Earth; they had all grown up on Alpha Centauri Prime. But still; it was the mother planet and one day she'd hoped to go there and visit - see the places where her family had come from and see some of the historic sites she'd only so far read about.
But it was now too late.
Sol had turned supernova and Earth was no more.
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Date: 2007-02-05 01:01 pm (UTC)very emotive
That brings back memmories of a SF short story where people are stranded on Mars
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Date: 2007-02-06 06:00 am (UTC)I have a feeling I've read that SF short story, but it would have been a very, very long time ago.