Each Tuesday, rather than a POSSIBLY
IRRITATING ESSAY, I'd like to both challenge you and lend a helping hand. I
generate more speculative and teen story ideas than I can ever use. My family
rolls its collective eyes when I say, "Hang on a second! I just have to
write down this idea..." Here, I'll include the initial inspiration
(quote, website, podcast, etc) and then a thought or two that came to mind.
These will simply be seeds -- plant, nurture, fertilize, chemically treat,
irradiate, test or stress them as you see fit. I only ask if you let me know if
anything comes of them.
SF Trope: Black
Market Produce (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackMarketProduce)
Current Event: http://www.takepart.com/photos/6-foods-are-going-extinct-because-climate-change/coffee
Ana Paula Ravlić
peered around the corner of the crumbling building, then stepped back and shook
her head.
Xyriel Jayasuriya
whispered, “What? Did they get away?”
“No. They’re
there.”
“What is it then?”
She sighed,
pulling the stunner from her chest holster, “I just thought when we were
recruited to do undercover surveillance we’d be doing something important.”
Xyriel barely
managed to suppress a snort of laughter. He whispered, “What, making sure the
fabulously powerful are supplied with wine and coffee isn’t your idea of an
important...”
Her elbow to his
solar plexus drove the wind out of the rest of his obnoxious comment. “Shut
up...” She looked around the corner again. “If we don’t move in a minute, we’re
going to lose them.”
He took a deep
breath, then managed to say, “I wasn’t done...”
“Shut up and get
ready,” she said. He was dressed like an average teenager in a
post-ANTHROPOgenic Globally Warmed Society America. Beaten down by constant
accusations of culpability by wealthy politicians and blameless scientists, he’d
been drafted to pay for the (quite literal) sins of his father, a former
climate scientist from the last century whose manner was so rude and
condescending, that not only had he had a hand in destroying any sort of chance
Humanity had had of pulling together to respond to global warming, he'd ignored his kids and took money from a PR machine no one had intended to build, but had appeared anyway. His dad had helped to drive the world economy into the ground. He'd ignored Xyriel...
Xyriel said, “If
you’d quit angsting for a second, I have an idea. I think we might be able to
do more than just steal grapes and coffee beans for the fat rats. There’s a
group who are working to create conditions that will let us start over. It’s a
sort of GMO Ark…”
Names: ♀ Uruguay, Croatia ; ♂ Philippines,
Sri Lanka
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