"One letter can touch the hearts of people for an ocean of change." Will the letter reach the shore of Magiting before everything is too late? My First Entry for National Geographic Writing Contest #PlanetOrPlastic WORD COUNT: 491 Ranking Performance in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart: ***AND FINALLY WE'RE NUMBER #1 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (12-28-18)*** #3 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (12-15-18) #4 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (12-13-18) #17 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (12-12-18) #16 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (12-06-18) #12 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (12-04-18) #25 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (11-30-18) #24 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (11-28-18) #31 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (11-24-18) Debuted at #66 in PLANET OR PLASTIC Entries Chart (11-21-18) ***OTHER MOST IMPRESSIVE RANKINGS IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES*** #1 in ENVIRONMENT (12-29-18) #1 in POLLUTION (12-29-18) #1 in NATURE (12-29-18) #1 in OCEAN (12-29-18) #1 in WRITING CONTEST (12-29-18) #1 in SHORT STORY (12-29-18) #1 in TRAGEDY (12-29-18) #1 in AWARENESS (12-29-18) #1 in REALITY (12-29-18) #1 in MARINE LIFE (12-29-18) #1 in INFORMATIVE (12-29-18) #1 in SAVE EARTH (12-29-18) #1 in MAKE A CHANGE (12-29-18) Thank you guys for all of your BIG BIG BIG support to my VERY VERY VERY simple entry. All the very best! God bless!!! :) © 2018 Kuya Ronnie Tagumpay © All rights reserved 2018 First Published November 17, 2018 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, things, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

My entry of the Planet or Plastic fight against single-use plastics. I'm not going to say whether this story is real or fiction, but to me the message of the story is clear.

Hazel Martin and Aston Kennedy had been childhood best friends. They spent all their time together and were inseparable until something happened that turned Ashton's life completely upside down. Now Ashton is a successful lawyer in London and Hazel is the owner of one of the best restaurants in LA, and they haven't spoken to each other in 10 long years. What happens when Ashton comes back to LA after all these years? Has he forgiven Hazel for what she did to him or is that it for their friendship?