{"id":5223,"date":"2022-08-22T17:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T00:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2022-08-22T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T00:47:00","slug":"illusion-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/08\/22\/illusion-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusion Of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Harvest-bots eat tomatoes?” Randall asks, stroking one ripening.<\/p>\n

“They let ’em rot for bio-fuel,” grunts Arielle, hammering another spike deep into the soil. “Being greedy, Harvest-bots take everything, but they won’t go near water.”<\/p>\n

She sets another spike while Randall adjusts the tarp.<\/p>\n

“If your plan works, we’ll have real food,” he says, punctuating his remark by crushing a bee-drone. Small metallic pieces pepper his palms.<\/p>\n

Arielle looks out on the defiant cerulean blue of the tented field. Years of used plasticine pouches of Mega-Meat and Vital-Veg, sewn together. They undulate and ripple in the wind. Waves, like the sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor Nina Miller <\/a><\/p>\n

Nina is an Indian-American physician, epee fencer and micro\/flash fiction writer from New York. Her work can be found in TL;DR Press’s anthology, Mosaic: The Best of the 1,000 Word Herd Flash Fiction Competition 2022, Bright Flash Literary Review, The Belladonna, Five Minutes, 101 words and more. Find her on Twitter (@NinaMD1) or ninamillerwrites.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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