Fallout

Sometimes there’s no explosion, just radiation. Nuclear radiation breaks chemical bonds, melts the thickest of skins, and when mixed with airborne dust, causes the landscape to freeze in a manmade winter.

Eventually the sun will come out, but who knows when that will be? All the field can do is wait. It waits. It waits a long time.

Someday the sun might shine on a dormant seed, and it would warm and sprout. The seed cannot bring about sunshine or rain by itself, no matter how it may yearn. Geothermal heat from its earthly Mother keeps it from dying, but only the Sun can make it truly flourish. So the seed does the only thing it can; dark and cold, it abides.

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