Friday Fictioneers – Invasion

~ Neil MacDonald
PHOTO PROMPT © Nancy Richy

Everything has changed. Three months ago, this land was peaceful, sustaining us from our goats, courgettes, and olive grove. My grandfather planted the olive trees, back in the days before the catastrophe.

Two months ago, they came. Just one caravan. What is one caravan, you may say? We have lived here for a thousand years.

Six weeks later, one caravan has become two prefab houses, a barn, and sheep. Then they came at night, tore up our courgettes, killed my dog.

May God curse them. God willing, we will drive them from our land.

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40 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers – Invasion”

  6. Sounds like every colonial invasion ever, throughout time and place. My first impulse is to say nip it in the bud, as ignoring won’t work, obviously. There has to be a better way? Hating to sound cliche’ but can’t we all just get along? The human (as in human species) response? Nope. Maybe we should let AI take over…

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  9. First, I had to look up “courgettes” to learn that they are zucchini squash 🙂

    Curiosity satisfied, the next thought I had was “urban sprawl.” That one caravan was deceptive. I hope they are successfully driven out! Killing the dog is outrageous, but destroy the zucchini? Horrible!

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  17. Well written, and applicable to so much, historically, including of the many places people call home now, or have called home before, or have returned to after being driven out, or claim to have more claim over than another. Oy, the story of humanity thinking that this Earth is a zero sum game.

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