Desert World

Man, a few domestic animals. A desert world – concrete, plastic – peopled mostly by robots. It has replaced the poisonous forest, and destroyed, too, the land born of rocks, of harsh extremes. Every life these supported killed. The house Jack built spread disease. Now, even Jack is dead. Though pages still lie unread, waiting to be misinterpreted. Unless … perhaps … A.I. allows Nature its own methods.

Picture credit: Desert Tram, 1997, Jacek Yerka (source: WikiArt).

Written August 2023.