This week’s Inklet is one I wrote for a course a couple of years ago, based on an article I read about the decline of the insect population. I’d been expecting to write in response to one of the other articles we’d been given, but as I sat down to write, the insect population one was what grabbed my writer brain’s attention. So we ended up with a slightly strange, quiet little sci fi story set on another planet after humanity left Earth behind.
She waits alone on the dark park bench, missing the family who no longer call. She waits for the tiny pollinators who fill the park each night—if not her life’s triumph, then at least something she feels rightly proud of.
If only she had someone left to share her wisdom with.
A quiet science fiction story about the future of humanity—and family.