Elise’s hands trembled as she took the glass from the counselor. She had wanted to say, I’m naked. Why am I naked? More, importantly, she had wanted to say, Where’s my body?
Category: On Writing
“Humanity has persevered through endurance,” the great founder and god of the Marianas Trench project had said in 2034. “Life on Earth is unpleasant, difficult, barbaric. It is time for Humanity to become more Human than Human is. It is time for Humanity to become the Gods we were all meant to be.”
In Popinjay, Gender Police, GenPol, are the daily enforcers of society's rules and ensure the daily security of the populace. Although they are not by definition "military", they are often referred to as "militzia", a corruption of the Russian word "militsiya", and are equivalent to state police.
Walk through the toy section of any store: the toys are segregated by Gender. Even the colors are different: harsh, strong colors in the boys' toy section; soft pastels in the girls. The male dolls for girls have soft, attractive features. These dolls look somewhat androgynous and even gay. The male dolls (I mean action figures) in the boys' section are rough, tough, have scars, large square jaws, burr haircuts or beards, and come with weapons.
This is the real Currency of Power in today's world: Collectivism. We are all One World. We are all members of a Global Village. We are Borg.
To be clear, all the words strung together in a story must implant an image upon the reader, provide the reader with a sense of the here and the now through imagery by which the reader relates to and empathizes with the characters.
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