This Place Where We Are

Short Fiction by Tayah Groat

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World

This world is said to be quite cruel; it’s natural. Life persists in even the toughest environments. Life blooms amidst adversity. There is so much diversity through the cracks starting as small as an amoeba. In the world, there are parched landscapes, and others quenched to the point of drowning. There is icy solitude and overpopulated infernos. We have not taken care of our world as it has taken care of us. Mother nature is the giving tree. We deserve to be disregarded, one that fell out of the nest. We are sickly. When a snake approaches a horse, stricken with fear, venomless, it fights back. Plants consume houses eventually. Viruses wage war against all species. Fungus decomposes waste. There’s a place and process for everything. We are ungrateful and ignorant. The impending end grows near. Change is inevitable and necessary.