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Writing Prompt #42 The Universe and Everything After

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Could prompt number 42 have really been about anything else?

No.

The earth is our home and everything we know about the universe we learned from from her.

So here’s the challenge, writers.

Take the image of the burning planet below. Is it Mother Earth? If so, have we long since moved on to other galaxies and spread ourselves among the stars, with other suns to warm us and another moon or moons to give us light by night? What happened to her, then, our beloved Terra Firma? Is there anyone mourning her death?

Or is this a planet at the edge of the universe, one that foretells our fate? What brave soul, human or alien, discovered this fate? Do they live to pass the warning on?

Maybe this is not a dead world, but one just beginning…coming together from the mass of other exploded suns and worlds. Suppose a team of space explorers discover this brave new world. Are they there on purpose, sent to terraform new planets as soon as the fires of birthing cool? What, if anything, would prohibit them?

I hope I’ve given you some inspiring questions to ponder.

Enjoy! Happy writing, and don’t forget your towel… ;)

A dying Earth? Or a beginning of a new one?

Writing Prompt #30: I Give You…the World!

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This image makes good inspiration for a science fiction or fantasy tale, or a blending of the two. It made me think of the ending of the first Men in Black film. Imagine a race of aliens so mighty they could pick up our tiny little world and throw it in a box! I hope they let us keep our atmosphere…we’ve sort of grown used to it.

If you get some inspiration from this image, write yourself a genius piece of Friday Flash or something, please let me know…I’d love to read what you come up with. :D