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.
Current Event:
Sophie Sperl
stared at the researcher and pursed her lips. "How is this legal?"
The technician
who was hooking up the wires that led into the helmet shrugged. "You're
like fourteen?" Sophie nodded slowly. He continued, "And you're in a
maximum security prison, so I figure you probably committed some really bad
crime, so you have no, like, rights or anything." Sophie growled and
squirmed. The tech looked at her and said, "I should let you know that the
room is completely monitored and I'm armed with a taser, and whoever's watching can send sleep gas
into here in a second." He worked for a while then said, "What'd you
do?"
Sophie snorted.
"I killed someone."
"Duh,"
said the tech.
Sophie looked at
him and said, "What's your name, handsome?" She squirmed in the chair
until the straps pressed up under her breasts.
"Arnava
Boqpool, and I'm gay."
Sophie looked
disappointed and squirmed until she was comfortable again.
"Sorry,
kiddo."
"You're the
same age as me! I'm as much of a kiddo as you are!"
He shrugged,
finished the contacts in the helmet and said, "Yeah, but I'm a
genius."
"I am,
too."
"You're a
genius at murder. I'm a genius at being a sponge."
"What's
that supposed to mean?"
He picked up the
helmet and tried to place it on her head. She snapped her head back and forth
until he stopped and said, "You can be conscious for this or I can tase
you out cold." He shrugged. "Up to you."
She stopped
struggling and let him put the helmet on her head. He snugged a strap under her
chin and said, "There. This shouldn't take too long. They say your brain
is no match for mine."
He sat down
across from her and lifted an aluminum bad bristling with wires and spikes and
placed it on his head.
"What,
you're a refugee from GAME OF THRONES?"
"Nope."
He leaned to one side and said, "When I turn on the interface, we'll meet
mind to mind. You'll try and kill me. I'll absorb you like so much spilled
Koolaid." He flipped the switch.
Names: ♀ India ; ♂, Germany
Resource:
“Robert Sawyer…Neanderthal Parallax…plans sent by aliens…lets people read each
other’s minds...strongly implied that this will lead to utopia.”
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