Linda Mchone

Once Upon an Ocean: and Three Other Short Stories Linda Mchone

What if the world as we know it was reversed? We live in cities, on the land, in houses, with animals, trees, flowers, neighbors, and businesses, Big companies, power companies, airplanes, rockets, boats, skin divers. We have seen the ocean, mountains, rain, snow, sleet, rainbows, and birds flying above in the sky. We have planted corn, wheat, beans, etc. and worked the earth with our hands and machinery. We have always wondered what was above us, up where the moon and the stars are. We have explored and theorized about the Moon, Saturn, Mars, Venus, Pluto, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, and other solar systems beyond our own, what they are made of, could someone live there. We have explored and wondered about things below us like the center of the earth, the oceans, fish, giants of the water. What if God in all his infinite wisdom, when he created the earth, trees, plants, animals, and man, decided we would live in cities under the water, instead of being upon the earth? Would mans inner most being still want to explore the unknown, or would we simply be content living in our cities and under water caves and live quietly among the creatures of the deep?