Hey guys I wrote this for my English491 course-- environment and culture literature. We were allowed to do a creative piece in place of a research paper, ha so being the laze that I am I wrote a creative piece inspired by all of the texts we read in class. I'm posting this for anyone who is high and bored and looking for a short read. Also, please post your own stories! I would love to read them! The title is "A New Millennia"
The year is 2009. A mutation between corn and pesticides has created the Zea Mays virus and it infects planet earth. Zea mays runs rampant all over the globe. This virus takes on a (so far) unknown process in the brain—it causes the infected to think and act irrationally. Zea Mays is airborn and highly contagious. Every country is in complete chaos due to its effects, and anarchy floods the streets. The irrationality is growing and nobody agrees on anything—the words “You are crazy” poor from every mouth. Every individual flees from any responsibility; governments are abandoned, churches are abandoned, homes are abandoned. A dark cloud sets on mother earth. Everyone and everything is infected.
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“Where am I? What am I? Who am I” Jasmine Christopher (nicknamed JC), age 21, sits in a whirl filled with disorientation and puzzlement. She can’t seem to keep her thoughts straight, nothing is as it seems and everything is mixed up. Her mind is floating away from her every second and the world around her is constantly shifting. She thinks, “Time? It moves forward, or backward, sideways maybe?… but what does all that mean anyway?” At first she just thought herself insane, but now her irrationality has morphed into a state of complete confusion.
Zea Mays has mutated again! The irrationality effect melts into paranoia and disarray. People forget how to function. Starvation conquers a huge amount of the population. Language disintegrates and people mutter mere noises.
JC runs wildly and panic-stricken into the neighboring woods, screaming un-decipherable sounds. “AAA jooiieeee, bah ooee!!!” JC’s body, weakened by the virus, cannot run for long and soon she collapses down onto the soil. Her mind can’t make sense of anything as all her thoughts are crashing into each other at speeds faster than light! But then, as quick as it came the virus leaves. The insanity comes to a halting screech as her eyes fall upon a plant surrounded by a golden glow. And, as if by divine guidance, she gets up and quickly runs to the plant. “Eat it,” plays over and over again in her mind. “I suppose if I must,” thinks JC as she picks a piece of the plant and eats it.
Over half the population (of humans, animals, and plants alike) has fallen deathly ill. The world lies wrapped in silence.
Quickly after eating the plant, JC’s mind and body clear of the infection. “What is this plant?” she thought. “I’ve never seen anything like it before. It has leaves that range from lavender to dark blue, and they twist into heart shapes. The stem is very thin; I wonder how it can possibly support the heavy flower on top? And the flower! The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen! The leaves are the shapes of stars and filled with psychedelic coloration. I will call you Kaleidoscope.” JC decided to sit down and rest against the tree trunk as her mind filled with knowledge. Her inner voice begins speaking to her, “JC you are the chosen one. You will soon be all-knowing, and the secrets of the universe will be revealed to you. Write these down.” JC couldn’t believe her mind! And just as her inner voice had promised truths began running through her consciousness. She scrawls them down into a notebook that she always carries on her.
This is a note for the people who will live in the next period of life on earth. Heed this warning. I am the last clear-thinking person of my time, it is the year 2009. I have been chosen to write down the truths of the universe as known to man thus far. I, along with everyone else, will die shortly after writing this.
The earth has been through many periods of life, and many of death. Remember this, and know that each time has its rises and falls. Every period is filled with the same aspects, so every period is ordinary. But, by the law of association, every period is also extraordinary.
Do not let corruption rule your period—it will be your duty to decide how to accomplish this as every period has different avenues for manipulation. Corruption leads to destruction. Our food industry caused our death—the virus was a mutation between corn and pesticides. And the corn, at this point in time, was in everything we ate. This could have easily been prevented with stricter federal regulations on food industries.
Make it a social norm for a family to be comprised of one child. There will always be some families that go against the social norm and they will have multiple children. This won’t harm you—more people will be needed to get things started at the beginning anyway. And with over half of your population having only one kid, you will last much longer on the resources of mother earth.
Treat nature with respect. Everything is connected to everything else. Death doesn’t have to be pushed under the rug—look at it as a re-birth or a leaving of this physical world to a better place. Knowledge is power, so educate the masses. Good luck!
After this JC takes a huge breath inward and slowly lets it out. She knows that she will not survive this dilemma, and is overwhelmingly okay with that. She knows what is to become of the earth and smiles. Her time is done here, and her generation will no longer be able to suck the resources of this planet dry. The corruption will end. JC hid the notebook in the trunk of the tree she was resting on, knowing it was the one and only place it could be left. She lies down to sleep knowing that as soon as she falls asleep she will forget everything. She is perfectly fine with that, because her soul will be going to its rightful place in the cosmos. And so, she falls asleep in peace.
Soon after JC’s death the rest of the world falls into silent sleep. And the mother earth freezes quickly becoming covered in ice. The planet earth goes into hibernation once again; to sleep and replenish.
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The year is 3009. Gaia has been out of hibernation for many years now and her resources have been completely re-stocked. Man has come back to earth. He is erect, and has a large brain. He contains everything as the man before him. The only difference? This man, of 3009, contains an antibody to a certain virus—Zea Mays. He contains the truth serum that lay in the plant termed Kaleidoscope. But, only this set of humans will contain the serum. After them, natural selection will no longer see a need for it. It is up to them to use it for better or worse. These people will become known as the ancients, and their scripture will rule the world to come. Their scripture will come from a dusty notebook found in the trunk of a tree.
But, will they listen? (END)
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