Five Sentence Fiction - Desolate

 

Lillie McFerrin's Weekly Flash Fiction Prompt - 'Desolate'

 

 

 

 

They saw it coming and no one did anything about it. They paid no heed to all the talk about climate change or global warming; they all thought it was someone else's responsibility.

Tammy shivered trying to ignore the hunger pangs in her tummy. She stroked the frightened kitten that shared her box under the bridge, and thought about how she liked to play with the one she’d been given for her fifth birthday, just a little while ago. She wondered what had happened to it, and whether it was with her mum and dad somewhere.