A possible future in less than 500 words, if plastic wins. This was my entry for the WattPad/National Geographic #PlanetOrPlastic competition back in late 2018. It reached their Top 10 Submissions which, given that there appeared to be well over 5000 entries, was a very pleasant surprise! The competition itself had a limit of 500 words so, for those who keep asking if I intend continuing the story, the answer (for now!) is no - unless I can find a very good reason for adding any more. Many thanks to everyone reading and voting on this story and getting it to number 1 in the #sciencefiction category in May/June 2020! I did try to thank the voters individually on their pages but Wattpad have a daily limit on the number of times I'm allowed to do that and there are now too many of you (not that I'm complaining)! Here's the top 10 submissions page: https://www.wattpad.com/list/738243473-planetorplastic-top-10-submissions If you want to read the story in Polish please head over to https://www.wattpad.com/story/236405960-m%C4%85dro%C5%9B%C4%87-staro%C5%BCytnych-t%C5%82umaczenie-pl where @juliatlumaczy has done a fine job - thank you, Julia! @juliatlumaczy has now sent me a version of the cover she used for her Polish translation - thanks again, Julia! @alex_sokolova has also translated the story into Russian as well. You can read that here: https://www.wattpad.com/976002417-мудрость-древних - many thanks, Alex! We now have a third translation! @AlfonsoLucassen has kindly translated it into Spanish and you can find it here: https://www.wattpad.com/1063634347-la-sabidur%C3%ADa-de-los-antiguos

Book 2: After arriving to paradise. The gang realizes that everything there is not as it seems. After a huge dark force rises, the gang set a journey to leave paradise with a few new friends and find a way back into reality. But one of their own has not been themselves lately and a series of tension starts to take hold between everyone in the group. Will they be able to survive in the desert? or will they be able to make it back home?

Book 3: Jackson and the rest have finally escaped the gruesome desert. After all the traumatic events that occured on the village, the gang attempt to get back up on their feet after a friend's unexpected betrayal. A secret organization have formed an alliance with the squad and had taken them to a secret compound. Little did they know that this organization have their own dark secrets which will change the fate of why the gang travelled on this adventure in the first place, once revealed.

Book 1: Jackson Harrison has spent his entire life loving the sweet, innocent Debby Huntington Starling. When Debby's father dissapears early in her life, she turns cold-heared. Years later without talking to Jackson, Debby climbs back into his life seeking help from him and his friends to uncover her father's whereabouts only to find discover that he is in Paradise. Debby and the gang decide to leave all strings behind to embark on an adventure to a world filled with peace and prosperity.

And in her smile. He saw something more beautiful than the stars.

Book 4: Three years after the events of GenCorp, Jackson and the remaining members of the crew try to rescue their fallen friends and steal some very important piece of hardware. They eventually manage to return back to reality to see their loved ones again but soon realize that the opportunity has to be sacrificed. The gang travel to Starling City in order to save the entire Resistance and stop the Savages once and for all in a war that has been prophesied to kill everyone in battle.