WeWriWa: Sporulators 9
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.
This is Klars talking to Eastwold about the world they're approaching. DESA is short for Department of Ethical and Sustainable Agriculture.
This is Klars talking to Eastwold about the world they're approaching. DESA is short for Department of Ethical and Sustainable Agriculture.
Could be wonky punctuation to keep within the #wewriwa guidelines.
The last sentence last week was: " Cornfields were forests."
The snippet:
“Apple trees had to be trained in much the same manner that hobbyists used to train bonsai trees. You do know what a bonsai is, right?”
Eastwold gritted his teeth but held his silence.
“They were building shelters out of cornstalks.” His voice bordered on wispy when he said, “Utopia.”
Then, as if he’d jerked out of a daydream, his voice resumed its condescending tone. “The sustainable world. We thought it all inside and out, from the ever-increasing dome sizes—which I might add--were finally framed in cornstalks rather than metal shipped from off-world, to the small production plants to make dome film out of vegetable oil, even what to use to enhance a plant’s root system. Mycorrhizal inoculants, endophytic molds. Oh, and the mycoparasitic fungi to…”
Then, as if he’d jerked out of a daydream, his voice resumed its condescending tone. “The sustainable world. We thought it all inside and out, from the ever-increasing dome sizes—which I might add--were finally framed in cornstalks rather than metal shipped from off-world, to the small production plants to make dome film out of vegetable oil, even what to use to enhance a plant’s root system. Mycorrhizal inoculants, endophytic molds. Oh, and the mycoparasitic fungi to…”
