Utopia to Dystopia

Kelsie Nelson-Osae '26

It is the year 2044. You were laying in a flower field while in a glass sphere. “What happened?”, you ask.

“I’m not sure," said the stranger. You felt the cool air of the flower field, cooling you down. You

and the stranger walked to the snowy plains in spring-like jackets that has turned into snowboarding

outfits. As the snow fell harder, the glass sphere had been flooding with water. “The sphere is flooding!”, you told the stranger. However, the stranger invited you to snowboard with her, and placed you out of the sphere. After a snowboarding trip, you and the stranger fit yourselves into the sphere comfortably. The stranger also gives you instructions to use the time travel option, but you decide to not touch it and mess it up and see a burning city ahead.