Mother Earth's Plight - A Short Story by V Varsha Shree

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 A short story by eleven year old, V.Varsha Shree -


 *Mother Earth's Plight* 



Mother Earth was very unhappy. Humans were dirtying her elegant coat of air with their silly man-made smoke. She called out to some of the volcanoes on her surface and instructed them to erupt. "Let them know how it feels to get dirtied by smoke", she thought.



Many volcanoes erupted on Mother Earth's cue, but to no avail. The humans were dirtied for a while, but they just released more smoke with their silly technology. Soon, Mother Earth was quite ill, since some of the smoke had entered her nose.



She couldn't bear it anymore. She started gasping for breath, quite often. She was very angry with the humans. The birds and animals were suffering, too. They came to her with their problems but she couldn't help them, being terribly ill.



One day, Wise Owl came to her with a possible solution. He had brought Bat with him. "Your Highness, Bat has a new friend, Corona, with him. Corona can help us heal Your Majesty. Then Your Majesty, in turn, can heal everyone! Bat will carry Corona to your surface. Do listen to Corona's plan." Mother Earth squinted to see Corona, since he was very tiny. He climbed into Mother Earth's ear and yelled with all his might, which produced a tiny squeaky sound in her ear. "Mother, I am Corona, and I will save the world and punish these humans. Here's what I'll do....."



Mother Earth was delighted. She thought it would be a good punishment for the humans and they would never, ever repeat their mistake again.



We all know what punishment Mother Earth and Corona gave us. Let us never repeat our mistake, ever again.



Thank you



- V. Varsha Shree

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