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A Writers Lament

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In the year 2727 the authorities found the last independent writer. Her den was a redundant canning plant. In their usual style they destroyed as much evidence of her existence as was possible. As usual they set fires and then blamed arsonists. As for Yvonne, she would be transported along with all the other undesirables, once the time travel glitch was fixed.

Now that using time travel to reach the past was out. The authorities decided to revisit the twentyfirst century experiment with cloning. Hoping to clone human blanks and then use time travel to transport the misfits to the underground mines at Mercury.

 

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  1. Nice idea, but I am a bit confused about the last paragraph. Did you mean the first sentence to be only partial? And I loved the story of Yvonne, so I’m not sure I wanted to be taken away from it and given an explanation.

    1. I think that you are right, I was wondering about what would happen to Yvonne, and then combined her story with my two past stories about time travel. I have slightly rewritten the last paragraph. This week I struggled to work within the limit of one hundred words

  2. A vignette that shows the power of the written word and how control of it should be resisted. Apt on many levels today, not least the terrorism war and the general election coverage!

    1. I think that you are right, I was wondering about what would happen to Yvonne, and then combined her story with my two past stories about time travel. I have now slightly rewritten the last paragraph. This week I struggled to work within the limit of one hundred words. This story developed as I was thinking about the tragic events at Manchester, and wondered about the power of the internet.

  3. Dear Michael,

    I’m not sure that traveling to the twenty-first century will solve any problems. Like Claire and Neil, I think the first paragraph worked…not so sure what was happening in the second.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

    1. I think that you are right, I was wondering about what would happen to Yvonne, and then combined her story with my two past stories about time travel. I have slightly rewritten the last paragraph. This week I struggled to work within the limit of one hundred words.

  4. It happens, the struggle to condense dense thoughts into 100 words. Must say we all improve that way. Can definitely say that for myself. As i deal with one flash fiction challenge after another almost every single day, i have come to know that it has only sharpened not just my powers of observation but also the mechanism by which to capsule into a reader worthy shoe string budget of a mere 100 words.
    Well done, Michael.

      1. I had some feedback myself this week and made a few changes. Trying to fit the word count got me this week and needed to expand the last line a little.

    1. Thank you Sandra, perhaps there were too many threads, I sometimes need to take more time to review what I have written, I do believe that I could have done a better job with A Writers Lament!

    1. Many recent events like the one which happen at Manchester, do make me question some basic mental traits within humanity. I know how easily human beings can take umbrage with one another. But the desire to punish innocent families is pure evil

    1. Thank you Bjorn. The overturned chair led me to think about someone sat writing, and then the building looked burnt. I had my story. I do really hope that my story does not come to pass

    1. Thank you. I saw a burnt out building and an over turned chair. The first part of the story wrote its self. I did however really struggle with the time travel element. I do feel that I should/could have done better.

  5. More about Yvonne please! Where exactly did they send her and could she make any life for herself there? What’s so darn awful about writers anyway? Are they too freethinking for the authorities? Intriguing Michael

    1. Thank you Lynn. Sadly my story telling this week was affected by events in Manchester a city I know well and enjoy visiting. In my writing this week, the authorities are those who encourage, finance and direct suicide bombers. Whilst the writers are ordinary individuals just trying to get on with living the life that they have been born into.

    1. Thank you Dale. My story telling this week was affected by events in Manchester a city I know well and enjoy visiting. In my writing this week, the authorities are those who encourage, finance and direct suicide bombers. Whilst the writer is an ordinary individual just trying to get on with living the life that she have been born into. I rather over complicated thing by trying to also wrap up my time travel story. Which with hind sight was silly.

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