Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

A quote: “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

I’ll start with a story …

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He could count every muscle in his body by each separate pain. He had been here two months now and every night he fell into his cot wondering when it would stop hurting.

They were all being driven, learning skills eschewed by finer people. But enough of his age were alarmed, then intrigued with forgotten knowledge that would survive when modernity did not.

Were these old men and women who taught them or did the seriousness of what they taught make them “The Elders”? So much to re-learn, so little time.

The cabin was finished. Now to learn furniture making.

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Now, it’s your turn.
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  • Cameron says:

    “Gentlemen, this a picture of one Arthur Sullivan. He’s considered too valuable to be allowed to leave the People’s Republic of America. Who wants to guess why?”

    A hand went up. “Given the picture, he knows how to maintain valuable systems.”

    “Exactly. AI classes in that nation aren’t as good as actual classes and even the people interested in the job aren’t as skilled as he is. His family was being held as “guests” of the state until yesterday. Who wants to tell me what happens next?”

    Towards the back, I heard “We get him out.”

    “Precisely. Let’s start planning.”

  • Leigh Kimmel says:

    People down on Earth have an image of what our lunar settlements look like: all slick plastic and shiny metal. That’s mostly because the images they see are of the parts of the settlement that are intended to look bright and shiny: the formal entrance with its Wall of Honor, the offices and conference rooms, the dining commons which often double as areas for public assembly. And of course the tourists all get to see the Main Concourse in Grissom City, which was deliberately designed to look like the concourse of a double-decker mall.

    They don’t get to see where the real work gets done: in the laboratories, in the greenhouse farms, and especially down here in the rabbit warrens of Engineering, where there’s a lot more oil and grease and noise than you’d ever expect from all those pretty images you see on TV. Especially over here in Shepardsport, where we’re crosswise with the Administration, we’re going a lot of improvising to keep things working long past the time they’d usually be replaced. And that means time spent banging around with hand tools, trying to get a new battery to work in an old robot, or get a cryopump back into service with a part that you’ve just fabbed on a 3D printer that was never designed for this kind of work.

    If you want to see the real Shepardsport, or any of the lunar settlements, go take a look at astronaut and cosmonaut blogs and U-Tube feeds. You’ll see a lot of grubby hands, and a lot of sweat and elbow grease.

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