What Pegman Saw: When You Can’t See the Forest

What Pegman Saw is a weekly flash fiction writing prompt hosted by “author, nerd and mom”, K. Rawson. Utilizing Google Maps, she takes us to a new corner of the world every week where our task is to write a story in 150 or fewer words based on what we see at our destination.

This week’s trip takes us to St. Petersburg, Russia.

What Pegman saw:

What I saw:

Can’t See the Forest

The motion was raised at the May 2015 City Council meeting, was seconded and unanimously passed without debate. Construction, to everyone’s surprise, took less than two weeks and citizens were so excited over the new recreation area that none of the residents of Hobbleton questioned why work was only performed at night or thought the absence of trucks and workers unusual.

That November, the Hobbleton council members voted to pass a motion to expand the pathways and two days after Christmas, the work, a myriad of rings within rings interlaced with mysterious designs, was complete and everyone was thrilled.

Including the surviving Kelbrath. The lizard-skinned alien race had been searching for a suitable planet since their own world began dying. The journey that brought them to Terra had taken roughly 300 years but the new landing pads would bring all Kelbrath to their new home. And a planet of food.

150 words.

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