A-Sha-Merrau
Autor: Luidgi | Publicado: 2014-04-21T11:51:00-07:00





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triffided Earth


&nbsp;The first month


Thirty days have passed. The Earth continues “triffided”.
“Triffided” is a term that we, the survivors, named the current situation: the
Earth had a lot of triffids. So, the Earth was “triffided”. The innocents
triffids, a comum plant in ours gardens, became a carnivorous plants after
suffering a genetic mutation caused by debris from comet. And they still walk !
They hunt us like a lion hunt a deer.&nbsp;
They are fast to move and fast to learn to hunt, too. &nbsp;Not solve shoot with guns. Just we can kill
them with&nbsp; a machete or with a axe. We
must to cut their trunks. It is the only solution. As I write this diary, six
men&nbsp; are guarding the surrounding. We are
among 27 people in this refuge. All men. The women and the blind people were
hunted easily. They were slow and unprepared. An easy dish to triffids. Eleven
men have left in search of food two hours ago. Within fifteen minutes is my
turn to watch.


The second month


A huge german named Ernest is our new leader.
He was elected after Niles,
our former leader, commit suicide. We must be the only organized group in the
world. We lost radio contact with two other groups. One that spoke English,
from Australia.
And another that spoke Spanish. Maybe from South America.
We are alone. We had many clothes. We had many hygiene supplies. But we had no
food. The looting in the markets of region didn´t bring more the needed food.
The rationing was necessary. Urgently. The water was abundant and of good
quality. Two men, Alfred and Hitchcock, were sick. Ernest had been a nurse
before become a teacher of mathematics and took care them. Between us there was
counters, engineers, mechanics, merchants, teachers. No woodsman … ! &nbsp;


The third month


A-Sha-Merrau, a arab tradesman of sundries of
dubious provenance, returned alone to our refuge. He had out with six men to
seek food and returned alone …&nbsp; what had
happened ? He was wheezy. Sweating. Sparrow, a shoemaker for a poor
neighborhood and our leader when Ernest was out, interrogated A-Sha-Merrau.
With his terrible accent, A-Sha-Merrau said that he had returned to tell us
that there was many triffids deads in the way.&nbsp;
Something was happening. Something was killing the triffids. I looked
around. The men were with the eyes wide. A smile in theirs mouth. A smile of
hope. A smile of life. A huge rumble was heard. The men embraced each other.
So, Sparrow called Muffy, a fat man, gardener in his spare time.&nbsp; He should gather a group and investigate a
triffid dead. The “Turkish” would guide them. The men picked up their machetes
and axes and left for the mission. Forty five minutes after, they returned.
Muffy was jubilant: the insects were killing
and eaten the triffids !&nbsp; They were a
insects named “igizay”, from Japan.
Lethal to plants. Harmless to mankind. Rapid reproduction. Muffy estimated that
in six weeks, the insects would eat all triffids ! The men was partying. So,
A-Sha-Merrau, with the face pale, shouted: “-&nbsp;
Who is watching our refuge ? “.&nbsp;
We all stopped. Silence. In each window, in each door, there was two or
three triffids.




&nbsp;We were
surrounded.





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