Magazine, website & books written by teens since 1989  The Day
Everyone Stopped Caring This work has been published in the Teen
Ink monthly print magazine.     It is just another normal day in
the year 2040, when the little girl hears her mother calling to
her. "I'm coming, Mommy," she yells as she drops her rag doll.
"Darling," her mother tells her, "please take out the trash."
She sighs and gets dressed up in a heavy plastic suit complete
with a gas mask. She takes the bags of trash outside, fighting
her way through vermin to dispose of the bags in her back yard.
The yard is already filled to its capacity, but there is no-
where else to put the garbage since all the landfills closed
decades ago and the bodies of water are filled with harmful
pollutants.  When she gets back in the house, the little girl
asks her mother if they can get outside of the house for a
change and go somewhere.  Her mother says, "I wish we could, but
there is nowhere to go. Anywhere we go, we would have to wear a
bulletproof vest,