Weekly Prompt: Wilderness Remade

Use that powerful imagination of yours and bring the wilderness back.

Last week was too tough, even I struggled to come up with an idea, and I had advanced warning!

I had to get my wife to pick a country for me to narrow things down. Then I only squeaked it in before the deadline — struggling to whittle down 60 words one by one until, in a fit of pique, I killed my protagonist.

This week let’s make it simpler, a little less homework, less researching the entire digital atlas hunting for wild places left in the world that are not also national parks. 🤦‍♂️

Since the first prompt, we’ve been moving ever upwards from a despairing rock bottom. From the startling realization of just how much of the world’s wilderness has disappeared.

Last week we learned about what we still have, what wilderness still abounds in our world's cold, remote reaches or the hot dense enclaves of our rainforests.

Now we eagerly climb up yet another level of optimism.

Now we look at how we could bring the wilderness back.

Now we rewild our world

Look at your hands, wiggle your fingers, make sure they’re loose and limber.

There's power in those fingertips.

Do your magic keyboard dance, close your eyes if you must, and bring back the Mammoth.

Or would you rather make the Sahara green

Turn the eternally shifting sands into rolling hills of lush verdant green.

Or perhaps this is too much; perhaps we build the Great Green Wall, a bastion of bark and leaf to keep the sands at bay.

Wait, no, that one’s actually real. That mammoth thing might be too.

We need to make this stuff up. Don’t we?

Our nights are too quiet, the moon too ignored

Perhaps we need the nighttime song of the mournful predator. You could bring wolves back to where they were exterminated and have them shift the rivers by chasing elk herds.

Wait no, that’s also real.

I don’t know — let your imagination run wild (😜) mine’s obviously hopeless.

Bring the dodo back, bring forests back to dust bowls. Or let our cities crumble and bring beasts back to Broadway. You can have Will Smith hunt them down for dinner.

What ever you decide you have 100 words to tell your a tale

• Use the sorting tag: Wilderness Remade
• First accepted story gets top billing
• Use your subtitle to draw us in. Format it properly.

💡 We’re going to start spreading out stories so we have new stories every day and each gets more home page time. It’s an experiment. 😇

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