Sustainability
1 min
Finalist - 2026 Sustainability Short Story Contest
Ryder T. - 8th Grade
The Future's Pain
New Messages!
2:41:22 PM
August 21, 2150.
From: Oliver Karsivok
> Hi future Oliver!
> When you get this, you might be in 2150. It is 2127, August 21st. My birthday! I sent this at the age of 9, so you must be 32 years old!
> Do you like the future? How is it like living there? Are there new technologies? Do we have the new iHologram yet? Have we made new plant species? I'm so excited to hear what the future has in stock for me and the people of the USA!
> Speaking of which, has world peace been achieved yet? I really hope that war will be stopped and the world is united!
> Hope you get my message in 2150! Tell me what happened in the span of those years!
I read over the message in silence, in what I now call home. "It's.. nice, Oliver." I whisper, looking up at the ruins of a land now with dying plants, smoke, people on the streets searching for a way out of the radiation, people in their cars driving around in panic, war in every corner of the town. I glance at the radiation shelter I'm in, with horrible water quality, people in pain, people dying due to radiation, and children.. losing their hope in humanity... "Just... Stay where you are."
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