Glitched Landscape

This was no longer the world we knew. Once, the sky was an untainted blue and the sand a smooth gold. But then, an unknown data stream altered everything. The landscape looked like a digital storm had swept across a canvas. The rugged mountains in the distance were shrouded in a deep nocturnal hue, their peaks appearing like the jagged teeth of decaying pixels. The blue waters were still inviting, but their surface was sliced by horizontal jitters, as if the ocean's very soul had momentarily snagged. Most striking was the sky; the clouds were streaming downwards in fine, vertical lines, proclaiming that this was not a painting, but a fractured broadcast signal. The verdant trees on the left stood as reality's last resistance, upright and steady, even as everything around them dissolved. This was nature's error message: a terrifying yet familiar beauty, caught between permanence and transience...