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You could go a long way with this one. I very much enjoyed the start./joeparente
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I haven't had anything else come down on it so far. I should do an estimate on the device's yield. Just after I had the dream I wasn't certain it was a nuke (i.e.: the plasma effect of an entering asteroid could cause an EMP), but I was after I wrote the story (which expanded on... Show more
I haven't had anything else come down on it so far. I should do an estimate on the device's yield. Just after I had the dream I wasn't certain it was a nuke (i.e.: the plasma effect of an entering asteroid could cause an EMP), but I was after I wrote the story (which expanded on the dream) the camp leader said, "It wasn't me." Assuming I've read the dream's metaphor correctly, this means that the event was not caused by a natural mechanism.
I think that the entire story's metaphor is similar to that of C.S. Lewis "The Great Divorce" and that this is when Hell (a city in the Lewis story) is destroyed. My character is in Heaven (another city in the Lewis story), which of course, quite a lot smaller in this story. I don't really know, perhaps I'll learn more about it later. Maybe from you!
In the C.S. Lewis story, Hell is a city much like a dreary industrial city in the UK, and a whole bunch of its residents get on a bus and go to Heaven, a much happier city. Due to various foibles related to human nature, all but one of those people decide of their own free will to get back on the bus and go straight back to Hell. And the one that stayed isn't sure if he's going to stay for long.
I'd like to enter Lights Poxleitner into this contest ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbcynqAYOr4
Terry