Posts Tagged ‘Energy’
Jul
Absent Samaritan
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
He used the lamppost to drag himself to his feet, having groped for the muddy spectacles.
“Help,” he thought he called, clamping the damaged frame to his face to supplement the remaining arm. “I’ve been mugged.”
But he couldn’t have made a noise. Surely the trio who passed would have stopped if he had?
He steadied himself against pain and dizziness and tried to focus his remaining energy into a shout for aid.
He watched through smeared lenses as they faded into the rain: ghosts into oblivion.
He couldn’t be sure they’d heard.
The blood seemed the only irrefutable fact.
From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid
Apr
Powering A Greener World
by profadamworth in 100 Words
The turbine blade arced high into the evening sky over Runsfeld. Though it was over a hundred meters long and traveling at great speed, from the ground it looked just like a petal, carried soundlessly on a capricious summer updraft.
The Republic heavily regulated all pollutant energy sources, generally reserving them for government use, and without cheap fuel, it was too expensive to run the machines that could repair the wind farm, especially for rural Runsfeld. Still, they needed the electricity the turbines provided.
When the errant blade finally collided with Runsfeld’s vegon cafeteria, it was nothing like a petal.