Plantorplastic Stories

This is an entry for a contest hosted by Planet Or Plastic

This is my story for the writing contest! Have fun!

I've always adored the ocean's beauty.

Exploring the plastic filled ocean from the eyes of a curious turtle. Inedible things have quite a reputation in the water and our turtle takes us on a tour through the oceans most mysterious objects.

They stopped calling it the ocean a long time ago. Image Credits Creator:Christophe Launay Copyright:Christophe Launay

A short story about ocean pollution (specifically soft plastic like packets) from the perspective of a young stingray.

Atabey is one of two supreme deities of the Taino people. She is the goddess of fresh water and fertility. She is also known as Caguana a spirit of Love and Guabancex the violent wild mother of storms, volcanoes and earthquakes. The Taino's used to worship her and hold her on high but she noticed as time went on her people worshiped her less and less as they became more consumed with modern advances. This caused Atabey's powers to diminish and she has become weak. It became difficult for her to watch over the Caribbean. Less and less people believed in her. She looked to the mortals and noticed that many of them have either became lazy, self absorbed, or both. Though there were many advances to modernize the people and make their work lives easier the enviorment around them has been neglected and abuse through the modern advancement. "These mortals have become so self absorbed and gluttonous that they don't realize the how their selfishness causes destruction around them. At this pace no one animal or human will have clean water and I will disappear. What could I do to get their attention to get them to make a change?"

A young woman who was kicked out of her sister's house now has to face the big world. She wants to be different and be an adventurer. An old man helps her reach her goal. While she is on her quest she gets stopped by her deepest fear. She has to overcome it to be the first female adventurer. Will she overcome it or not? I guess you will have to read to see.

This is a contest I saw and decided to give it a go I hope you enjoy my short story to help win the fight against pollution and all the water plastics.