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.
Igaluk Abumayaleh-Jawai and
Godly Freego have been taken for minor crimes and sentenced to months of
indenture aboard the cloudwhale Polyakov.
Both have other
plans and reluctantly joining forces and plan an escape on the “longest night
of the century”, when normal Night and an eclipse of the star HD 23127 will
result in a double night – nearly thirty hours.
A “sparkling”
airshow celebration will allow for perfect cover, but the two have to overcome
their distaste for each other – Iggie is only mildly modified (though
technically not Human by Imperial standards); Freego is so highly modified that
Iggie thinks they’re a caricature of a Human, and certainly obvious. Their
punishment will be far more severe if they’re captured; but they’re going to
have to work out their differences FIRST – among them the deeply ingrained belief
that all Humans are by nature superior…and that all Transhumans are by nature
superior…it is, in a real way, carrying racism to the stars.
Names: ♀ Inuit;
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