Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Micro Fiction

I've been doing a little freelance writing lately and a potential client asked me to write a 1000 character (yes character, not words folks) creative piece using the following keywords: future, flying car, gates, city, robot. Check it out.

He towed the metallic remains of a battle-worn robot down the dust-covered road that was once the main trade artery into the city. His eyes fixated upon its massive outline scaling the burning red embers of the morning sky. The empty skyline once saturated with the flying cars and technological advancements found between the pages of former generations’ science fiction novels, was now a testament to the true destructive power of modern technology. He had read one of these antiquated books once, a tattered and dirty testimony to the ignorance of our past.

He lightly chuckled to himself as he trudged towards the gates of the city, now beaten and dilapidated by decades of sandstorms and the wind blown ash created through the divinity of a nuclear winter. There were to be no medal ceremonies or ticker tape parades upon his return this time. All that remained was the hollow skeleton of his once great home and a subtle grin etched itself across his embattled face as we headed in the direction of his home, uncertain about what uncertain trials lay ahead in the approaching future.

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