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:
http://meninblack.wikia.com/wiki/Frank_the_Pug
looked over at his Human handlers and said, “What’dyou think
this is, WHEN THE TRIPODS CAME?”
Aradhya Morais shook her head, “Of course not. You’re not funny.”
Heitor Saigal
managed to choke back a guffaw as the alien inflated its side-of-body sacks,
something they’d come to recognize as his look of indignation.
said, “I am very
funny! Among my birth-moment peers, I am conisdered a real cut off!”
“You mean a ‘cut up’, don’t you?” said Aradhya after she snorted. Heitor
was pretty sure she had no idea she did it. It had bugged him during their
first months together, but as they’d been matched with 
by the command structures of both Humanity
and its people.
by the command structures of both Humanity
and its people.
“Humans have their metaphors, we have ours – only it’s not a metaphor.”
Heitor frowned, “What’s that supposed to mean?”
“What it says. I am a ‘cut off’. A Big Mistake.” With that, hurried ahead of them.
hurried ahead of them.
Aradhya had said “scuttle” more than once, because the aliens looked more
like small crab-puppies than anything else – though they looked like crab-puppies as much as
a chimpanzee looked like a Human. She leaned over to Heitor and
said, “What do you suppose it means?”
Heitor shrugged, “Its an alien – we’ve only been hanging around each other
for four weeks. What do you think it means?”
From around the
corner, bent the tube it used to whistle through and more-or-less
speak its oddly accented English-Portugeuse patois and said, “It means exactly
what it sounds like. My people sent a wasted life to be the Contact team to you
Earth people…”
bent the tube it used to whistle through and more-or-less
speak its oddly accented English-Portugeuse patois and said, “It means exactly
what it sounds like. My people sent a wasted life to be the Contact team to you
Earth people…”
Names: ♀ India,
Brazil; ♂ Brazil, India,
Klingon () is barely spoken correctly “qaPla” which is roughly “success”
– but this isn’t Star Trek, so it is barely spoken “ri” which means, in Alien
language, “a grave mistake”
) is barely spoken correctly “qaPla” which is roughly “success”
– but this isn’t Star Trek, so it is barely spoken “ri” which means, in Alien
language, “a grave mistake” 
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