This story is in response @mariannewest 's prompt for day 132 of her 5-minute freewrite challenge. Today's prompt was gardening.
The carrot began to grow up and out of the ground. This seemed to defy all conventional wisdom of carrot growology. The orange root-head of the carrot began protrude from the soil to ever greater heights until it was taller than the average person. It kept growing, surpassing the neighboring buildings in heights. In fact, it didn't stop growing until it tickled the surface of the moon.
In an exceptional display of ingenuity, the proprietor of this out-of-this-world carrot decided to utilize his unusual asset to literally leave this world. Starting at the base of the carrot, he carved out a circular entrance just large enough for his body to pass through and then proceeded to hollow out the carrot-stalk ever upwards until the whole thing was entirely hollow, like a straw stretching between the earth and the moon.
Given the lack of atmosphere on the other end, earth's air was constantly being sucked up the length of the carrot-straw in a powerful rush that could carry off a grown human being (to the unfortunate demise of the original proprietor). People subsequently started lining up in their space-suits to be sucked up the length of the straw and deposited on the moon's surface. It was the fastest and cheapest way of getting off-world.
Unfortunately, after Earth lost a substantial amount of it's breathable atmosphere through the sucking action of the carrot-straw, the government sent a squadron of rabbits to eat this inter-planetary connection out of existence.
I love the idea of interplanetary rabbits taking out your Tower of Babel.
I know I'm late but here is your friendly reminder about today's prompt: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-133-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-the-attic
hahaha sucked up to the moon 😀