Short fiction: Five Stages of Hubris
This original 5-minute-read was written for THINK magazine by Martin Lochman ‘channelling his inner Michael Crichton’
April 17, 20251 min read
(First draft, 14th February 2029)
Dear Mrs Sciberras,
Allow me to begin by stating that all I ever wanted was to make our country a better place to live. Unlike plenty of my peers who went into science to make a name for themselves or revel in the theory, my ultimate objective has always been to develop practical, easily applicable solutions to problems. And let’s face it, Malta suffers from plenty – from chronic overpopulation coupled with collapsing infrastructure and short-sighted development policies, to climatic changes with increasingly more devastating effects on the local environment.
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