How We Came to Be Here

By Rick Bramhall

This is a prediction of what may come to pass if we do not start to take climate change seriously and don't make the necessary changes to our life styles. It begins in a possible future no more than 100 years from now. In this world you have to travel to Canada to see trees. Millions of people clamor to move as far south or north as possible. Hundreds of thousands of people die daily. Scientists say it is too late to do anything. Our narrator is a man trying to grow a security company in an increasingly unsecure world. He courts the business of the rich but is surprised at the offer they make him...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rick Bramhall
• Release date: Mar 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310113062

Rick Bramhall

I was born in 1952 and grew up Hawthorne, California. Served in the US Air Force from 1975-79. My longest gig was working in Medical Information at the Loma Linda VA from 1979-89. Got my BA from Cal State San Bernardino in 1989. Taught 8th Grade Language Arts 1990-94. Volunteered at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve from about 1997-2004. I moved to San Diego in 2009 to be nearer family. In 2019 I moved to Yuma AZ, as rent became too high in SD. In 2021, my place in Yuma burned down and I moved to Tucson to be nearer my childhood friend, Carl Harrison. I'm currently involved as a community activist.

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How We Came to Be Here

by Rick Bramhall

Copyright 2016 by Rick Bramhall

Cover photograph Outside Ocotillo copyright 2016 by Rick Bramhall

All rights reserved.

The characters and events in this story are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, are coincidental and not intended by the author.

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Stranger, we have tried searching your mind to find out how you came to be here, but your mind is too confusing for us. You seem to have all your memories stored in a random order that is difficult for us to make sense of.

Izeekia squirmed somewhat angrily in his seat. He was not used to having his mind probed. It didn't make it any easier that he could not see this entity that was messing with his mind.

That's because that is not the way we are used to communicating with people. We communicate by speaking out loud, he explained with as much patience as possible. He knew that getting to know these entities would be important to his people.

Then perhaps it would be best if you proceeded that way.

Okay, well then here goes.

Our home planet, a place we just left within our lifetime, is