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PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here.
Welcome to the future. Ground congestion fixed… The air, a nightmare. Hovering cars wait for hours, needing to charge up. A constant shadow casts over cities, blocking the sun, creating a constant chill even in summer. Only the rich can afford rooftop apartments and have direct access to the sky. Sunbaking an expensive hobby, restricted to boutique hotels. Skin cancer read about in the history section on tablets. Hello vitamin D deficiencies. Add more crap to the water supplies, along with fluoride and B12.
Beep, beep. A vacant power bank. Just a little to the left, a little to right, a little lower. Not that low. Shit, this is worse than reverse parking.
Tannille 
At least they seem to have solved the collision avoidance problem.
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Well there is that, but I think they have created a host of new problems. 🤔
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Inventive take.
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Thanks S!
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Dear Tanille,
Inventive and disturbing take on the prompt. It sounds like this future is not all that distant. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks R! You’re right it might be around the corner, although I think we’ll get driverless cars first.
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Grim future! 😦
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On the bright side, I think pollution is a thing of the past 😀.
Thanks TDN!
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Very believable!
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Thanks Iain. Humans fix one problem only to creat more.
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Oh, now that was cleverly done! Enjoyable read (and I hope it’s not an accurate prediction).
Susan A Eames at
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No nasty pollution though…
Thanks S!
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Great, a story to my taste, but heaven help us if it comes true
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Technology has a price. In the process humans as a collective forget the little things that give pleasure ie the sun.
Thanks M!
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I have seen the future – my future. This is it. For those of us born before the fifties, the future held such promise, but like your future written here. promises are broken and what looks like a wonder becomes a curse. Let’s go back to 1950, tomorrow.
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Oh dear imagine the current kids and their withdrawals from the internet…
Thanks P!
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I was born in 1951. In the UK, the fifties held smogs, which killed tens of thousands every year. Women who were nurses had to end their career when they married. Women teachers had to quit when they became pregnant. Gay men were beaten up and couldn’t seek legal redress – in fact, it was often the police who did the beating.
Our society today has some very serious problems, but we are actually better equipped to solve them now, both technically and sociologically. And these little portable camera/computer/phone thingies are ruddy marvellous!
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Great counter argument Penny. I think the past gets romanticised. In some ways better times and in other ways not.
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Most interesting and inventive take on the prompt Tannille! Love it!
Must say that I don’t look forward to that time…
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At least you’ll be alive. Unlike a curtain somebody who killed you off this week lol. Jest aside, I agree with you sometimes progress is not better.
Thanks D!
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There is that!
And what up with Iain? So casually killing me off like that! 😉
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Tsk tsk tsk. You could always kill him off, a mafia kind a payback! 😀
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I could indeed…
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The future of flying car has arrived. Ofcourse every action has its consequence.
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It does. A universal law.
Thanks A!
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At least they’re not spewing exhaust fumes down on your head on top of everything else 🙂
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Oh damn that would be nasty… 😀
Thanks D!
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I absolutely love the last paragraph :):) Great take on the prompt…
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Lining a car up to charge would be a nightmare! 😀
Thanks R!
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I like your comment about lining up with the charging point being worse than reverse parking!
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All I could see was trying to line up, hope there is a strong magnet or something!
Thanks P!
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Hmmm… Never realised that flying cars would have this many problems. At least one problem persists throughout time — parking.
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Human beings don’t think ahead too much, or at least the leaders don’t. There are usually better ways to implement things.
Thanks B!
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Perhaps, we will all live in floating homes tethered by rigid poles. If the Earth’s surface becomes too hot because of overcrowding and climate change what choice do we have?
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Tethered until it’s decided the world if over populated and the world government breaks the poles – oops.
Thanks J!
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Great take – love the last few words!
Click to read my tale
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Thanks K!
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Cor, I’m depressed. (Worse than reverse parking??).
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Maybe parallel parking is the better analogy? On the bright side cancer is cured.
Thanks P!
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Clever and depressing with a hint of optimism.
Well done
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Don’t see it much different to the world today; some elements good, some bad.
Thanks C!
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I hadn’t thought about flying cars blocking out the sun, because of course everyone would want one. I hate reverse parking!
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Must admit I never thought about the sun blocking until I visualised this world. Pop culture focuses on the good side of flying cars.
Thanks B!
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Nice take. I feel like this could be our future.
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Not sure we’ll be around to see it but the next generation may be.
Thanks K!
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sometime i wonder how your is wired. excellent story. 🙂
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You’re not the first to question lol. I ponder all the time.
Thanks P!
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So inventive.
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Thanks Lisa!
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What did they do to make the world chilly and dark? Love the detail, especially the reverse parking.
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Perhaps they’ll somehow make mini artificial suns? Won’t be the same though.
Thanks G
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the future, chaos, all with humor. Well done!
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Always believed in humour, especially during grim times. Not everyone shares that philosophy I have learnt.
Thanks S!
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drama only get us so far and doesn’t help the mental state. Humor, on the other hand….
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At least they don’t have to worry about ruts in the road. But then there are other problems. Well done, Tannille. —- Suzanne
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There is that.
Thanks S!
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