FF – A Beautiful View
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Ted Strutz.
Dave and little Maggie walked up on deck and looked out over the impressive vista before them.
“Oh, Daddy, isn’t it beautiful?”
“It is, Maggie.”
“I wish Mummy was here to see it.”
“Me too.”
Mummy had been held up. She’d missed the boat. Dave and Maggie’s home, since the waters rose. Maggie had been only six months then.
“Those are trees, aren’t they, Daddy?”
“That’s right, Maggie.”
“Daddy?”
“Yes, dear?”
“I heard some of the others talking. Why are they calling this place the ‘Sahara Desert’?”
“That’s a story for another time. Come on, let’s go back below.”
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draliman on life 
You don’t just “miss the boat,” or you end up like the unicorns back in the Biblical days…
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They were actually thrown overboard during the trip due to some accidental horn stabbings.
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Something ominous hiding in that one!
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Yep, a climate-induced apocalypse 😮
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I think so.
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A strong sense of a changing climate here
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Yep, exactly.
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I wonder what held Mummy up – it must have been something pretty drastic to miss this boat!
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A tidal wave perhaps. Or maybe she thought she’d left the oven on…
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Perhaps COP738 can sort it out!
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As they stare up at their ancestors’ home from the moon 😮
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Those ice caps are melting faster every day!
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They are 😦
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I’m so full of questions…. Enjoyed!
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I’m glad you liked it! Maggie also wants to know what’s happening.
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i’m afraid mum is history and her siblings are history as victims of climate change.
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I’m afraid you’re right. Unless she’s a really good swimmer.
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Oh how sad that Mummy missed the boat and they are now entering a new world…
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Yes, she was not one of the lucky ones 😦
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Sad but real…
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😦
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An unusually sad note from you, Ali. But I’m glad you couldn’t resist the optimism either.
pax,
dora
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A new start, for some at least 🙂
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Climate change. Global warming. Not to far in the future.
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No, I fear not.
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A modern day’s Noah’s Ark or just a day trip to view the Atlas mountains from the Sahara Sea.
A nice nod to our climate change hysteria.
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Thanks. The few survivors…
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I suppose Mummy was one of the climate change deniers. Fun story, a serious-light view on possible futures (although I don’t think the Sahara would be flooded).
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She could well have been.
Hmm, everything got flooded in “Waterworld”. That film may not have been based on scientific predictions, though… 🙂
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I know. I don’t know how many meters maximum the sea could rise, but from the flood maps I’ve seen http://flood.firetree.net/ Africa, would not be affected very much. Europe and Britain though…
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I’m relieved to see that even at 60m my neck of the woods is largely okay. We have very high cliffs.
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You’re lucky! The weather, however, I’ve no idea how that’ll develop.
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The future perhaps…? Gosh I hope not but the climate changes going on are so weird! Who knows?
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I don’t think it will get bad enough to flood the Sahara, but… 😮
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Dear Ali
Sahara? I didn’t see that coming. .
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Predictions don’t show the Sahara flooding, but I prefer to base my estimates on the Kevin Kostner film “Waterworld”, which I’m sure was based on solid scientific data 😉
Ali
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A timely take Ali. They might read this in the future and ask – ‘how did he know?
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Ha, I hope not!
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Reminds me of the movie 2012 … 🙂
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Maybe the boat they’re on is one of the arks 🙂
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Ha! 🙂
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I like the tenderness of the relationship between Dave and his daughter Maggie. Their loss of Mummy is a stark reminder that climate change applies to all of us and won’t be picky about who survives.
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Yikes. Poignant story well told.
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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The discussions by the adults onboard this boat on how to rebuild society from limited human stocks, would challenge our current beliefs and morals on relationships. Dealing with climate change would be just one issue. There’s a whole bunch of other complex ones too. -Michael
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Yes, let’s hope they do a better job this time.
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“She’d missed the boat.” Now that’s an understatement. Nicely done.
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Yes, he’s feeling numb to it now I think, just something which happened back before the world broke.
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