An old creative writing assignment I just found and dusted off. It's not too bad, I guess. The challenge was to write an entire story in under 500 words (knowing me, you can guess how hard I found that), and it had to have an 'I' character. Being me, I had to give it a scifi twist. End result weighs in at 380-something words, and looking back is probably poncy as hell. Meh. Take a gander at it, should it tickle your fancy.
Title: The Wind At Midnight
Rating: PG-13 overall, I think.
Characters/Pairings: Will be Bruce/Clark. Bruce, Clark, Barbara, Lois this chapter.
Summary: Almost a quarter of a century ago, the cities of Earth were torn from the earth by some mystic upheaval and set flying, before threatening to fall back. To prevent the incredible loss of life if they fell, structures known as Ramparts were rapidly constructed, containing the material apparently most susceptible to the new mystical gravities of earth: silver. A new world order was built, as the deserts created on the surface during the Upheaval denied cultivation, based on Cities and flightpaths and park-grown food, a world in tentative political and physical balance. And now that balance is threatened.
Chapter summary: Our two heros and the dataqueens plot. And flirt. Just a little, though. Business before pleasure, after all.
Disclaimer: Characters are not mine. Conceit inspired by James Blish's 'Cities in Flight'. Rest is mine.
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