Callie Fine
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The Wave of You
We never plan the moments our lives change. They seemingly just exist, they just happen, but we always remember those exact moments and how they shape us, we define ourselves and our realities by these little moments. Like the moment I saw you, the wave of you.
By Callie Fine4 years ago in Poets
unami Sow
It looked like snow. The blanket of grey and white cascading out the car window. It reminded me of Kyoto, seven years prior, a trip with my late husband. We sat in a Ramen shop slurping as a dusting of snow danced down the small window. Covering the red shingled roofs. I can still taste the broth, the warm spoonfuls hitting the pit of my stomach. That was our last time traveling together before it happened. A jolt from the SUV shook me out of my japanese daydream. Except it wasn’t snow. Ash rain they called it. Every few days or so a precipitation of soot, debris and ash from a scorched landscape would rain down over us for hours painting the world gray, a daunting reminder of what we have done. I wish I had savored the Ramen more in that moment, food, my mouth starting salivating, the pangs of hunger in my side jutting as each minute passed. They called it a “revolutionary bio technology”. After the third world war, many of the natural ecosystems were destroyed, causing an imbalance of the prey and predator amongst nature and agriculture. An invasive species of insects thought to be endangered began to emaciate crops across the world. A group of scientists out of Europe created a synthetic soil that would neutralize the species. That was the plan at least. The trials were successful. Farm land was replaced by the nano bio tech soil one by one, after 7 years the soil had gone rogue. It became like an infectious disease it mutated, food wouldn’t grow and if it did it was poison. It spread to natural soil, it burned in the heat. Forest fires began to arise on marijuana farms that were attempting to salvage crops against government regulations. The entire west coast of America burned, it eventually made its way across the country “the great blaze”.
By Callie Fine5 years ago in Fiction
