ADD I love living in the city (517 hits)
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Submitted by august sobriquet (View user info) at 2006-08-01 09:56:47 EDT
"The Crystal City, what a joke. You can cover a dog shit in gold but, in the end, it's still a dog shit."
Some days were better for everyone. Things weren't the same since the eco-collapse of 2190 No, not even remotely. I couldn't hold it against Chris, his bad attitude. I didn't
share it, but I sure as hell understood it. It's not easy seeing what goes on everyday in these alleys and crannies... Take away open space, take away our link to nature and some people are more as animals than a free person could ever dream to be.
Really, our presence is mostly a deterrent. We patrol the oxygen condensers and monitoring equipment-- the ones that aren't contained in the science centers. People try to hijack the good air and water. Even with all the safeguards taken to make them tamper proof, people still manage to get at the guts of the things and 90 percent of the time they just bust it up and get hardly anything. It doesn't stop them trying though. People can get pretty desperate, especially the ones who remember life before the spheres.
We're witnesses out here to the true law enforcement though. It's funny, what develops out of necessity. There is not jail space to speak of anymore. It was tried, but over time people couldn't understand why with so little of basic necessities to go around, why were we sheltering criminals. These days people watch one another very closely, and there is plenty to watch out for, believe me.
Today's justice is swift and brutal. Most crimes are of a sexual nature now. With no popular culture to entertain them, those of less high minded morals find all kinds of ways to occupy their time. Just today we saw a man all bloodied in the crotch passed out in a narrow doorway. His neighbors told us that he was suspected of sexually gratifying himself with his girlfriend's young son. If he survives the blood loss, he won't be doing that anymore.
So really for jobs, it's just we and the scientists, who have employment in any historical sense of what jobs are. There isn't a need for much else. It's amazing what is really necessary when life is reduced to what we have. More amazing still is the wide range of ways we who are left cope with our current situation. Myself, I still believe that as long as we are here and there are good people, we have hope for a better future.
Now, Chris, he's a different story. He's almost 50 now and so he remembers times when it was still safe to go out of the city. His grandfather used to take him fishing, outdoors. You still couldn't eat the fish back then, but Chris says he just can't forget the feeling of warm sun beating down on him and the warm breeze lapping the water against the side of their rowboat. I think it torments him almost all the time. For me, things like that give me hope. It's funny how we are all so different still.
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-03-03 05:36:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2007-02-03 21:53:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was good. Definately worth expanding.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-01 19:56:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by august_sobriquet (user info) at 2006-08-01 10:37:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2006-08-01 10:25:04 (#)
Ranking: 2
You should take this and expand it into something bigger. I liked the premise of it, though it seems hard to compress into the word limit.
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i hear ya. it really was too short for this kind of thing.
Submitted by august_sobriquet (user info) at 2006-08-01 10:26:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
the reason there are no other crimes is that there is nothing to steal, aside from the necessities, which is what the guys are guarding. There is no way to make or grow drugs. what reason is there for violence if there is nothing to fight over, or with really. no bats, no gun, no bullets. what stays constant in people? I think people would always be up for sex. Thats why i wrote that i guess.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2006-08-01 10:25:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You should take this and expand it into something bigger. I liked the premise of it, though it seems hard to compress into the word limit.
Submitted by august_sobriquet (user info) at 2006-08-01 10:20:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I don't know berty. there are no venues for entertainment. it is grim. people can spend time together, but there is no longer a big machinery to pump out entertainment. When you think about it, everything we use comes from nature. No more nature, no more anything really. it is a pretty grim thought. This idea is that there are glass biodomes that everyone lives in. there is so little oxygen and unpolluted area that all life sustaining necessities, air, water, food have to be so carefully controlled and managed that there is no extra for anything. that was my idea anyway. Its only 500 words for heavens sake.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-08-01 10:12:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Well it's an interesting idea for a series. It seems a little ill conceived though.
Why would entertainment grind to a halt? Doesn't make sense. Even if it did, why would you end up with a vast increase in sexual crimes?
Now if you make sex a crime, due to some manner of extreme birth control policy for example, then you've got a potential story. Otherwise it all just seems a bit silly.
Submitted by hour_man (user info) at 2006-08-01 10:08:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Sorry but I really didn't like this. I don't know why, but I just didn't. Sorry mate.