The world we shouuldn't lose

by Katarina Mihajlovic Ilic (Serbia)

I didn't expect to find Serbia

Shares

The story describes life in a small place on the seaside. In the atmosphere where two different energies meet, the south and the west, the main character discovers the essences of her own cultural history, meets the spirit of local inhabitants and enjoys the exquisite experience shaped by seaside air, peoole's customs and new time that announces it's arrival. Everything changes when the main character one morning finds that the rock where she often came by has changed and that the rain that fell that night let holes made of drops which meant that a nuclear weapon was used somewhere nearby and that actually fell the acid rain. Why and how would such things happen in a peaceful, seaside town? On her return home, while walkimg through the weaving paths, she spotted a sunny child sitting alone in a meadow and playing. Was that the second sign that a dusaster was nearing? She desparately searched her memories when similar disasters happened and was almost sure of the signs. The question was: why on earth such things might happen? What triggered human minds to hurl into disasters? She thought of the days when the surrounding was peaceful and charming. What caused the reasons that all that beauty the place was breathing with could be put into danger?