 Short Stories: July 17, 2024 Issue [#12645] |
This week: You Do You Edited by: Leger~  
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You Do You
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Music prompt: "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs
Excerpt: An old flame. How had he acquired this photo? As far as I knew, he owned nothing from his years in foster care. I smiled to see Pierre happy, his curly sandy hair and kindly green eyes as sweet twenty years before as they were still. I'd never seen a picture of him from those days.
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Mattí and her German Shepherd try to survive in the aftermath of the final war.
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Excerpt: Mattí burrowed into the rubble with the same skill and effort as a dog burying a bone. Her calloused hands moved over the top of one another, while chunks of debris flew over her shoulders in puffs of dust-laden clouds around her.
Excerpt: Like the American general, Douglas MacArthur, I had returned. The fog of old age could not stem the memories that rose in my mind, like the tides on a beach south of Dunkirk almost seventy years ago. I experienced a lifetime in those few weeks they called the miracle of Dunkirk.
Excerpt: I couldn't think why I'd volunteered for this, but maybe I just wanted to make a good impression on the Principal. Being the junior-most teacher in the school isn't easy, and one has to grab every opportunity one gets to shine.
Excerpt: Scanning the main street on his second pass, he suddenly saw a place he'd not noticed the first time: it seemed only to be 'a hole-in-the-wall', slotted between an Ace Hardware and a bedraggled five-and-dime store, but the door bore the inscription "Big Diners' Club." An odd choice for a name, the young business counselor thought, as he got out of his old Chrysler and straightened his dark tie.
Excerpt: The silent ones came to the orchard at the ferret’s hour.
Excerpt: I tugged on Judas's arm, but when I reached for Ash's I missed. I caught it the second time, and nodded toward a woman outside one of the shops. “If I were going to garb up some year, that's the kind of thing I'd wear.”
Fake leaves in orange, red, and yellow danced through the girl's hair, twisted around her torso, and twined down all four limbs. Judas looked at the girl longer than necessary; Ash looked at me. “You'd be cold.”
“I'd just wear more leaves.”
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This month's question: Do you review content you're not personally fond of? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: What kind of technology do you use in your stories?
Joy  : Love this! Like your mother, I don't "cell-phone" speak, either! I bet my kids --who aren't kids for being in their fifties-- would be so shocked if I started to. My cell is only a year and a half old, so it can do many things, but I use it very sparingly. I only check WdC on it, when I'm about to go to sleep at night and away from the computer. You're right, however, in that our stories have to grow in tandem with the technology. I guess mine will have to wait until my next lifetime.
Samuel Max  : My main character of my story is one of the only characters who uses a cell phone besides one of his other family members, but only on rare occasions; so while I in my daily life do use a cell phone every day, he instead only uses his phone to call or text sparingly.
brom21 : I primarily write fantasy. So, there is not much technology. I have tried my hand with sci-fi a few times. The first one that comes to mind is when I used an interdimensional travel device. I kind of mixed my main genre with sci-fi when the device was actually pulling in angelic beings into the apparatus itself. It was interesting to try sci-fi for a change, but there must be some factual background to write sci-fi. With fantasy it is basically letting your imagination run wild. lol. Thanks for the NL!
mike-dk: I write historical fiction, so I have to ensure that the technology I use is common during the period I am writing about.
Cadie Laine - twinkle lights : Right now in my stories the characters have cell phones but interact with each other more personally. Eventually, they may text or "be on their phone" more but right now the phone is out.
Beholden  : Your latest NL is particularly relevant for me because I never managed to get into the cell phone thing. My wife has given me one of her old ones but I only use it to find out what the weather forecast is - and I have a perfectly good computer that does the same for me anyway. So it's rare for my characters to have cell phones - I'm not sure I know enough about them to hand them them out to everyone I invent. If I have to (as in Tut's Cell for instance), I check the details with my wife. Can't be making silly mistakes in such a well known area, can I? ;)
Timothy Otto  : I don't text at all. I have a cellphone and a landline. The cell is for emergencies. -Tim
The Puppet Master : usually just stuff that's common nowadays. Computers, cars, cell phones, unless its a period piece. Then I use stuff common to that era.
HaveYourselfAMerryLi'lCharles  : For some reason, I keep putting chips in peoples’ brains. 
Amethyst Snow Angel  : Depends on the era. I use phones and such as a way to anchor a story in the real modern world, because I'm impatient when it comes to "world building" or setting.
Santeven Quokklaus : I try not to be too specific, but mobile phones, computers, GPS, Internet, gaming systems, security systems and SMS have all appeared in my stories.
The reason for a lack of specificity is that it can date a story. Having general and generic items can exist in the 21st century and not s certain clutch of years.
Unless, of course, I am setting a story in the 1980s. Then anything goes. Commodore-64! IBM-486! New CDs! Laser discs! Woo-hoo!
cenvil : I'm a fantasy lover.
Especially my worlds mostly don't use tech as they have magic to do it all.
So tech is hardly something that I worry about.
Though I do wonder about introducing some tech from and ancient civilization in one of my novels :)
oldgreywolf on wheels  : As appropriate.
BIG BAD WOLF is Merry  : Depends upon what technology level the society is at. Might stick with Medieval level stuff, might go Modern, of Futuristic, or even a mixture. Then there's the post-apocalyptic stuff.
Blessed Christmouse  : all kinds..... In one of my stories I wasn't going to use cell phones then figured out that it would be easier to just let them have it
Mr. Mans : well, in my universe(s) Technology is legit anything. believe it or not there are people who haven't even gotten past the stone age, while the neighboring country is far past our tech, into floating buildings and robots with sentient minds. I like it this way because I can add lots of diversity and different interactions.
jackson : Mostly, Just the technology of common sense for the time period in which the story takes place. My characters are the common people of the time in which they live. They use the tools available to them, but basically, they rely on their wits to survive.
Detective : It depends on when the story’s set and occasionally the genre. I try to at least have the technology that would be the most logical for the story.
deemac  : Where a story prompt allows me to choose an era, I much prefer the extra challenge of a time when communication was more difficult than today. For me, that provides more opportunity for intensifying relationships and heightening drama.
TheBusmanPoet  : Off the top of my head, I don't think I do. I can't recall ever using any.
Indelible Ink : I prefer to wallow in ignorance and stick with the Stone Age (pre-cellphone)
🐕GeminiGem🎁  : I wrote a Sci-Fi story, once. It has some made-up technology in it like space transports, chips in brains, dog-to-human speech translator modules. That last one was my original idea, at least as far as I know. There aren't usually many dogs in Sci-Fi stories, are there?
Other than that, I usually avoid technology in my stories, although I'm not sure it is on purpose. I might mention driving/riding in a car, but that's about it.
bobconstable: Depends on the setting.
Jaycin Alexis : I find myself writing in modern times a lot so of course I use modern technology, assuming this means like electronics and whatnot. However, I've only kind of made one story and I'm working on another one so maybe I'll use different technology in the new one.
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