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: Human
males get pregnant
Yernar Batyr is
no stranger to sexual orientation discussions – his fathers have lived together
for fifteen years; his biological mother was a surrogate who was also a
stripper; his grandfather changed his gender (no one knows whether the change
included surgery or not). He is accepting, popular and well-known.
He’s also
straighter than an arrow and has a totally normal girlfriend at a normal,
northern California high school in the “smaller” town of Susanville – a town of
20,000 that is best known as the location of the High Desert State Prison. It
hates the reputation that comes from being “Californians”. They see themselves
as a small town, even though they are less than a 100 miles north of Reno,
Nevada.
Of course, this
is why no one is surprised when aliens land in town one day.
What is a
surprise is that they have four sexes.
It’s also a
surprise that they are fighting – really fighting. With guns and bombs and
high-energy weapons.
And they brought
their kids – all six hundred and thirty-two of them. They need to get rid of
some, so they spray them with a hormone that induces a competition reflex and
then they let them go to Thin in the mountains.
Yernar is hiking
on the desert with several buddied one day when a pack of the alien young
attack HIM; running for their lives, they’re scooped up by an alien creature
driving a massive ATV who informs them that if they don’t stop the kids, their
quaint little geometric human corral will be overrun and its cattle eaten…
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