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  • Our Kingdom Come
    132 23 3

    One perfect, one careless, one hopeless. Which planet do you want to live on? Soon, you won't have a choice. Based on the National Geographic photo of a woman swimming with a stingray in a sea of plastic. Join the movement! Write a story about how plastic is effecting our planet. Check out the National Geographic Watt...

  • Wet Plastic Home
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    A short story/poem I wrote about the epic journey of a plastic-straw, inspired by the National Geographic / Wattpad contest. Save our beautiful oceans...there is no Planet-B. 💚🌏🐠🐬🐟🌍💙

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  • Dry
    10 3 1

    Kai Kaila was born into a world without any oceans. She lives in a place that was once known as the island Hawaii, but is now simply called "The Cliff". The Cliff is the last of what used to be islands that has yet to topple into the oblivion that used to be filled with ocean. After seeing what used to be the island M...

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  • Single-Use Mermaid
    68 18 1

    This was my entry for the #PlanetOrPlastic competition 2018. We abuse single-use plastic every day. Many of us do not see the effects firsthand. Instead we live in a blissful ignorance. But, our planet is not a single-use object to be abused. Planet or Plastic? You decide.

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  • I Live by the Sea (#PlanetorPlastic writing contest)
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    My name is Athena, and I have a home by the sea. I'm a diver. Mostly as a hobby, in a way. I'm chasing a creature; a monster so terrifying it haunts my every dream. I've been following its trail, but it always eludes me. It always returns to the vast arms of the sea, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake. Someho...

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  • Grace #PlanetOrPlastic
    28 8 1

    "People are God's creation so as the sea. If we can literally tidy up ourselves to avoid dirt and illness, why can't it be the same to nature?" This is to the future that we dream to live. Let us save our world from plastic pollution. #PlanetOrPlastic

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  • The Surface #PlanetOrPlastic
    99 13 1

    It's 2289 AD, my planet Earth's pollution levels have increased beyond imagination, adversely affecting the weather and destroying our ecosystem. Globalwarming and the ozone layer depletion has led the sun's radiation to incinerate everything in sight, everything, but plastic. So we built our homes underground, safe f...

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  • Mermaid Tears ✔#PlanetOrPlastic
    67 23 1

    #PlanetOrPlastic Once upon a time... I start like a fairytale, because it was a fairytale... ●My 1st entry on PlanetOrPlastic Contest of NatGeo ●cover by me

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  • The 3rd Wish
    258 57 1

    A wish that was so good that it turned out to be so bad for us all. My entry to National Geographic's #PlanetOrPlastic writing contest. Ranked No. 1 #plasticorplanet out of 97 stories, last August 18, 2019. Ranked No. 3 #planetorplastic out of 1.9k stories last November 16, 2018. Photo credits to National Geographic f...

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  • The Dolphin's Plea (#PlanetOrPlastic)
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    "Dolphins weren't a rare sight, but seeing them even a thousand times wouldn't take a shred of their beauty away." My entry for National Geographic's Planet or Plastic Contest, which seeks to bring awareness to the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans.

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  • Ocean Horizon #PlanetorPlastic
    219 32 2

    An entry for National Geographic's #PlanetorPlastic Contest. A Fantasy and Psychological feel to the plastic waste.

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  • #PlanetorPlastic
    101 23 1

    What do you choose?

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  • Artificial Oceans - #PlanetOrPlastic
    42 11 1

    A heartbreaking wake-up call addressed to the human race.

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  • Waves of Plastic
    719 91 1

    This is my entry for the writing contest by National Geographic. #PlanetOrPlastic

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  • Old man's Lament
    38 8 1

    A short story for the national geographic short story contest - plastic or planet. Feel free to comment. All comments welcome.

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  • Pacific Dump - #PlanetOrPlastic
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    Hi!! I am SO thrilled to have been selected by National Geographic to write an entry for their Planet Or Plastic contest! I'm from California, so the ocean is very near to me. Lately, however, something I've been seeing more of there is...trash. Plastic bottles and wrappers. Stray cups and containers. So much waste in...

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  • EXTINCT #PlanetOrPlastic
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    Visiting your local lake where you grew up should be an exciting experience. A chance to re-live the memories and remember the special moments you had. When visiting only a few years later, pollution has taken over and taken its sea creatures with it. Who's to blame? We are. Humanity. The extinction of animals and o...

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  • Island Girl #PlanetorPlastic | ✓
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    'It won't be long until our world disintegrates into a mass of debris, filling it with the mistake of people's ignorance and greed.' This is my entry for National Geographic's #PlanetorPlastic writing contest. In 500 words or less, we were asked to write and share a story, may it be real or fiction that was inspired b...

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  • Differently | #PlanetOrPlastic
    952 138 1

    What could we have done differently?

  • If only (entry for #planetorplastic)
    39 17 2

    What will you do when death is all around you? What will happen if you are a stranger to rain? These are the problems that our future generations may have to face. Where all you find is plastic dump, when all you can do is wait so hear the news of your ceased classmates. This is my entry for national geographic writ...

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  • A Little Hope
    86 18 1

    ✨One small action from the unlikeliest source can change the world. ✨ Inspired by the National Geographic/Wattpad challenge, I've written a story with the lesson that even though we may not be able to do the largest of things, that our small actions in regards to helping save our planet matter. Thank you for reading...

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  • Song of the Ocean
    143 26 1

    What if the world was a sheet of music? A crashing wave the beat of the drum, a whale cry the sound of an opera, the wings of a ray the soaring arms of a conductor and the silence of the deep a melody to the words of humanity. But no longer does a harmony sound. For the drums are broken, the opera outdated, and the wo...

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