Sustainability
1 min
Finalist - 2026 Sustainability Short Story Contest
Jenya S. - 6th Grade
My World
I looked around my world, hoping to see the lush green meadows and trees that stretch farther than the stratosphere. I looked around, hoping my heart out that it would be there... but... what's this?
Am I... in the wrong place? This looks nothing like what it used to be! Come on, I only left for thirty years!
I wished for it to be true. For as long as I had been a cat, I had never seen anything more polluted than this. I hated to see my beautiful glen disappear before my eyes. It was heartbreaking. All those humans talked about was something called ‘sustainability.'
Talk about sustainability... this isn't sustainable at all!
Maybe... I can do something about this...
Maybe... I can do something about this...
I grabbed a piece of plastic in my mouth. I don't have hands like you humans.
Ew...
I had to do it. It just didn't feel right to leave it here. I put all the plastic, paper, and metal cans carefully in their respective bins, all the way back in the city. Yes, I'm smart enough to know what goes in what.
One by one, everything started to clear up. It brought me a kind of joy that I had not ever felt.
There.
I saved my world.
Go save yours.
<3
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