Tuesday 30 January 2024

Housing

 


Bear 1:  Did you know humans want to dig Earth Homes here?

Bear 2:  What?!?

Bear 1:  They have a housing  shortage. They'll model them on bear dens. They think it's ecological.

Bear 2:  Hah! They'll probably line them with insulation foam and fill them with plastic gadgets and heat pumps ...

Bear 1:  ... and put a cellphone tower on the mountain-top.

Bear 2:  There goes the neighbourhood.

Bear 1:  I'm sure they won't spend the winter quietly asleep.

Bear 2:  They want to be one with the land.

Bear 1:  Poor land.

Bear 2:  Yeah. Thanks for the nightmare.






This story is reproduced from LITERARY YARD, www.literaryyard.com, 2024/02/10 It's a common fairy-tale theme -- imprisonment in a tower ...