Author’s note: if you are having suicidal thoughts or feelings, do NOT read this. Get help. I am completely serious. Go here instead: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Also, this story is available in Dutch and in Spanish. The first time I saw a pod in person was only yesterday. It was glossy white with an eye-catching vertical green stripe, a cool pine tree green, subtly illuminated by inset LEDs. There was a portrait on the side of it at eye level, a pretty blonde woman holding a young boy, smiling down at him, tranquil and content. The boy had brown hair, and he was also smiling, warm pink cheeks, blue eyes. The woman looked a little like me, like she could have been my cousin. Underneath the portrait was a single Helvetica block cap word: HOPE.
My favorite part is that, in the dystopian world, where merely living is a turned into a cause for guilt, there exist upscale hotels with fancy restaurants, wagyu beef and fine wine. Some people, some classes, clearly have greater capacity to carry 'debt' than others.
I find it interesting that "carbon" is one of the most elemental atomic elements to all animate/organic life. And w/o Co2, there would be NO plants providing both Oxygen AND . . . FOOD. Perhaps that's exactly why the evil/criminal Elites wish to control/tax it! Anybody have any idea just how much carbon is released EVERY MINUTE by the hundreds of deep-water volcancoes?
Dystopia on steroids! This 76 y/o “red county rural” drafted ‘Nam VFW w/ a ’15, 12ga assault pump and 9mm, “locked and loaded”, sez: Time for a “[not-so] civil bloody-ugly v2.0”? “Bring it” and “return me [my] Home” (GFR – “Closer to Home”). Chi-com PLA UN blue-helmeted "clean-up" troops be damed! No FEAR/HATE when, “… where two or three [are] GATHER[ed] together …”, What/Who “abides”? “JC always before me/we” cuz … there are no atheists in foxholes or within defensive perimeters surrounded by gov Fast-&-Furious-armed roving gangs and/or desperate, displaced, UNrepenting/UNprepared “citYzens/coasters/urbies”. MAGA – “Make America Gracious/Grateful Again/Always” or toss it on the same ash-heap of all other failed empires. Ooo-rah. Psst, IRresponsible parents remaining in DemonRAT-controlled “schiff-holes” is child endangerment!
Hopefully one day you will grow up and have children of your own. The life of an incel is depressing. Futuristic suicide chambers are welcome in Turd-eau's dystopia. You don't need one! You are a very talented writer. Go out and meet some real people and have a life!
Intriguing story. I like how you interweaved the future within the story and some of the social, climate, and political consequences. I’ll admit I was bothered by the dialogue that eating fatty meat can lead to heart problems. I think the opposite. But I used to be vegetarian once, so I have empathy. Good story. I enjoyed it. Thanks.
Profoundly depressing. Also, a scant hair's-breadth from current reality.
He never looked at the message that was left by the man in the suit, yet he assumes everyone else in the world will read his?
Depressing yet motivating.
This is my favorite short of yours
Awfully close to what reality is exactly like these days. And, frankly, if people cannot stand hearing reality criticized....
My favorite part is that, in the dystopian world, where merely living is a turned into a cause for guilt, there exist upscale hotels with fancy restaurants, wagyu beef and fine wine. Some people, some classes, clearly have greater capacity to carry 'debt' than others.
I find it interesting that "carbon" is one of the most elemental atomic elements to all animate/organic life. And w/o Co2, there would be NO plants providing both Oxygen AND . . . FOOD. Perhaps that's exactly why the evil/criminal Elites wish to control/tax it! Anybody have any idea just how much carbon is released EVERY MINUTE by the hundreds of deep-water volcancoes?
Ugh
Dystopia on steroids! This 76 y/o “red county rural” drafted ‘Nam VFW w/ a ’15, 12ga assault pump and 9mm, “locked and loaded”, sez: Time for a “[not-so] civil bloody-ugly v2.0”? “Bring it” and “return me [my] Home” (GFR – “Closer to Home”). Chi-com PLA UN blue-helmeted "clean-up" troops be damed! No FEAR/HATE when, “… where two or three [are] GATHER[ed] together …”, What/Who “abides”? “JC always before me/we” cuz … there are no atheists in foxholes or within defensive perimeters surrounded by gov Fast-&-Furious-armed roving gangs and/or desperate, displaced, UNrepenting/UNprepared “citYzens/coasters/urbies”. MAGA – “Make America Gracious/Grateful Again/Always” or toss it on the same ash-heap of all other failed empires. Ooo-rah. Psst, IRresponsible parents remaining in DemonRAT-controlled “schiff-holes” is child endangerment!
This is so good.
Choosing to expunge the life out of this carbon based body for the false HOPE of oblivious FREEDOM actually submits the soul to the chains of HELL.
GOD is ENDLESS LOVE, LIFE, and full spectrum LIGHT.
Conversely "cool pine green" is the hemlock of DARKNESS leading to BLACK absence from God.
Clay based life is actually just basic training for ETERNITY.
Choose LOVE, LIFE, and LIGHT. John 3;3.
It is true freedom.
Psalms 27:13 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Hopefully one day you will grow up and have children of your own. The life of an incel is depressing. Futuristic suicide chambers are welcome in Turd-eau's dystopia. You don't need one! You are a very talented writer. Go out and meet some real people and have a life!
Intriguing story. I like how you interweaved the future within the story and some of the social, climate, and political consequences. I’ll admit I was bothered by the dialogue that eating fatty meat can lead to heart problems. I think the opposite. But I used to be vegetarian once, so I have empathy. Good story. I enjoyed it. Thanks.
What was being implied by the presidents daughter "rhytmically moving her arm?" Was she trying to fan away the gas?
Wouldn’t it be easier to just realized you’ve been brainwashed by greedy green scare mongers, and get on with your life? Follow the money…