He reached deep into one of the pockets in his jacket and took out the packet of Black Sky that one of the Revelers at the shelter had sneaked in as a goodbye present. He held the tiny ziploc bag up to the faint light, looking at the transparent crystals inside. Turning the bag sideways … Continue reading A New Earth – Petunia
continued from previous Darkness had begun to sweep like a thick veil over John’s desolate neighborhood. It must have been a relief for the mimosa trees that were surrounded by miles and miles of hot, burning concrete slabs on every direction. Even for their African genetic makeup, the brutal heatwave was too much to handle. … Continue reading A New Earth – Night
continued from previous “In fact, this wouldn’t surprise me at all. It would perhaps be the missing perspective in our understanding of life, and the way that our genetic code was put together in a disordered, yet purposeful way. All of this time science has been focusing on the sequences within our DNA that have … Continue reading A New Earth – Made out of Chaos
continued from previous She closed the notebook shut with a single, slow but decisive hand movement. She kept on staring at it for a few seconds, almost in a comatose state, as she tried to wake up from her daydream. How could it be that the entire world was sitting inside a notebook, in a … Continue reading A New Earth – Disaster Gene
continued from previous He could see that the urban landscape was becoming rougher further down towards the port: this was the area where the main river of debris had come rushing down from the mountain at the peak of the hurricane, following the ancient creek that had been paved over in the past hundred years. … Continue reading A New Earth – Why do I photograph things?
continued from previous He turned his attention to Olivia: “Earth is a garden. Once you stop killing the weeds and allow everything to grow, you realize that no species was actually ever invasive or aggressive. They were all meant to be with each other. When you plough the garden, initially there is a little competition, … Continue reading A New Earth – The Memory of Extinction
continued from previous John looked out of his window and down into the destroyed botanical garden that used to take up most of the space in the square. There was still broken glass lying everywhere, marking the silhouette of where the huge dome of the central conservatory used to stand. Most of the debris had … Continue reading A New Earth – The Square
continued from previous Olivia was about to go to sleep when Jonathan’s message notifications lit up on her phone screen. She opened the first message, showing thousands of purple jellyfish mesmerizingly dancing in slow motion in the brown ocean. There was no sound to the video, which made the image look even more hypnotic and … Continue reading A New Earth – Faster Than Previously Expected
continued from previous Jonathan noticed the ship’s engine get louder and louder. It roared and moaned, as if it was struggling against an obstacle. But he couldn’t possibly think of what that obstacle could be. He was out and about in the open ocean on a calm evening, tens of miles away from any natural … Continue reading A New Earth – New Life
continued from previous The city had barely lifted itself out of the flood when the rain begun pummeling it down again. Dangerous rivers were forming in the streets once more, teaming up with the grey sky to compose a picture of a post-apocalyptic urban waterworld. But the downpour didn’t stop some of the last remaining … Continue reading A New Earth – The Revelers
George Tsakraklides 