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Stories from the Warming Wars
New cars ran on tears and fired their gasoline from cannons. Factories ran on fear and fabricated only smokestacks. Artificial plants inhaled oxygen, exhaled chlorofluorocarbons. Babies toddled charcoal footprints.
Cattle manufactured fertilizer, overflowing levees and chestwaders. Fish that mated laid eggs less developed than their legs. The final polar bear floated four starvation days before its floe unfroze with solar flair.
Sun and a methane lens battled against central air. Sunburn and tornados met in the trailer park before they tore it up. Sunday and noon meant midway to volcano. Sun and on and on it went.
Humidity licked and lapped humanity. Vigilantes caught a watermelon and beat that fruit with bats. Everyone constructed effigies of weathermen. Suddenly, somebody combusted.
