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11 days until NaNo. Feel free to read and tell me which you think are interesting and would be fun to read more about.
Scene: a snippet of oral history
CHARACTERS: none
PROMPT: somewhere in the sands of time
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 210
WARNINGS: Just a tiny bit of scene.
DISCLAIMER: Mine. Step away.
Land speculation had reached an art form by 1957. The only reason that a parcel of land made any money was if it had a source of water or a vein of minerals or metal. There was no other reason for land to worth anything. The real money was in steam. Metal and water.
By 1962, people had realized that the metal wouldn’t last forever. The rivers that flowed from the mountains were thick with sludge, making them almost worthless to power the engines that men needed to survive. The creators of the engines, the gods of steam, were unable to come up with a solution for their problem. They liked their money and didn’t want to give it up.
There was a legend about a man in Texas who could find water with a branch. One story says it was from an aspen tree while still another claims it can only have been a willow. People have been searching for him, and others like him, for years.
And there are others who laugh off superstitions. Magic never earned anyone any money, they’ll tell you. Gold and silver and iron are what are real. Myths and legends aren’t real.
But they would be wrong. They just don’t know it yet.
Scene: a snippet of oral history
CHARACTERS: none
PROMPT: somewhere in the sands of time
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 210
WARNINGS: Just a tiny bit of scene.
DISCLAIMER: Mine. Step away.
Land speculation had reached an art form by 1957. The only reason that a parcel of land made any money was if it had a source of water or a vein of minerals or metal. There was no other reason for land to worth anything. The real money was in steam. Metal and water.
By 1962, people had realized that the metal wouldn’t last forever. The rivers that flowed from the mountains were thick with sludge, making them almost worthless to power the engines that men needed to survive. The creators of the engines, the gods of steam, were unable to come up with a solution for their problem. They liked their money and didn’t want to give it up.
There was a legend about a man in Texas who could find water with a branch. One story says it was from an aspen tree while still another claims it can only have been a willow. People have been searching for him, and others like him, for years.
And there are others who laugh off superstitions. Magic never earned anyone any money, they’ll tell you. Gold and silver and iron are what are real. Myths and legends aren’t real.
But they would be wrong. They just don’t know it yet.
