WeWriWa: Sporulators 7

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, where we share snips and bits of amazing tales by talented authors and writers. Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or unpublished (we like it all) on their own blog to go live by 9:00 AM each Sunday. Then we visit each other and read and comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart good.
      Snippet Sunday group from facebook, not us, but many of our participants do both, is HERE

      This week's snippet is from a short story, 'Sporulators', more dystopian/scifi, than anything I've written to date.    
     Last week's excerpt ended with this:  “Yeah. I’m sure. Volunteers, all.  Who wouldn’t volunteer to come to a desert wasteland to live out their days?”".

 

This is in Eastwold's POV.  Could be wonky punctuation to keep within the #wewriwa guidelines.

Klars is answering Eastwold:

      “Desert wasteland?  Pffft. Although the planet had no indigenous life, it was overflowing with the necessary requirements. Well, to be more accurate, it had no active life—no plants, no animals. There was DNA though, in the limited remains we found.  And it doesn’t take an educated brain to realize that once we found the plant DNA,  that at one time, there had to have been bacteria and fungi, too.  

     "Without either, you see, the final breakdown of matter just does not occur. Of course, you’d not understand that part since it’s on a molecular level that the breakdown happens. The elements only do so much, especially on such a dry world.

 

 

That's it for this week. Thanks for visiting! I am truly grateful for comments, suggestions, and for you taking the time to read it.  

WeWriWa: Sporulators 6

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, where we share snips and bits of amazing tales by talented authors and writers. Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or unpublished (we like it all) on their own blog to go live by 9:00 AM each Sunday. Then we visit each other and read and comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart good.
      Snippet Sunday group from facebook, not us, but many of our participants do both, is HERE

      This week's snippet is from a short story, 'Sporulators', more dystopian/scifi, than anything I've written to date.    
     Last week's excerpt ended with this: 
""The point I'm trying to make, Klars, is that DESA was depending on the loyalty of people given little consideration.".

 

This is in Eastwold's POV.  Could be wonky punctuation to keep within the #wewriwa guidelines.

Eastwold is still speaking. The snippet:

     

Not given a choice to take a family, not given a choice to stay for ten or even twenty, and then return.  DESA asked for a hell of a lot of commitment, but offered little in the way of compensation.”

Lars’ expression softened. “It will be fine; we used the New Day Method when planning for labor. Those men each took a vow of celibacy, so that made  Greenleyone the life’s mate to each. They were content, and if it were otherwise, young volunteers would not have come forward to replace the aging workers.”

“Yeah. I’m sure. Volunteers, all.  Who wouldn’t volunteer to come to a desert wasteland to live out their days?”

 

 

That's it for this week. Thanks for visiting! I am truly grateful for comments, suggestions, and for you taking the time to read it.  

WeWriWa: Sporulators 5

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, where we share snips and bits of amazing tales by talented authors and writers. Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or unpublished (we like it all) on their own blog to go live by 9:00 AM each Sunday. Then we visit each other and read and comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart good.
      Snippet Sunday group from facebook, not us, but many of our participants do both, is HERE

      This week's snippet is from a short story, 'Sporulators', more dystopian/scifi, than anything I've written to date.    
     Last week's excerpt ended with this: 
"Klars smiled at him—a stiff, businesslike  smile. “Incalculable? Really, Eastwold?”.

 

This is in Eastwold's POV. 

The snippet:

     

The best, we sent the very best. The best equipment, the best supplies, the best people. And those people were armed with microscopes and analytical labs set up on each square kilometer of ground. DESA didn't treat this like voodoo or magic. It was science that went to Greenleyone--science wielded by intelligent men."

 

Eastwold mumbled as he spun around to face Checkup 17's controls, "Intelligent men and a whole raft of underpaid laborers."

 

"What did you say, Eastwold? I didn't quite catch it?" 

Luke turned to face him again. "The point I'm trying to make, Klars, is that DESA was depending on the loyalty of people given little consideration."

 

 

That's it for this week. Thanks for visiting! I am truly grateful for comments, suggestions, and for you taking the time to read it.