PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here.
Hail to the dome that gives us life. Her beauty and fresh air we are in awe.
Water is sacred. Waste is death.
Breeding is for the chosen few. Sterilisation is a virtue.
Never step outside the sun rays, a beam of death. A place for exiled criminals.
No mercy to outsiders. They destroyed the land beyond.
The children chanted their morning prayers as they marched around in militant fashion. Chins up they honoured the heritage given to them by birth. Blood trickled and soaked the soil as they chanted the final line – “No one to live over the age of 30”.
Cull the wrinklies!
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I imagine there are some oldies – the rich with permits.
Thanks N!
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Logan’s Run revisited!
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Believe it or no I never heard of Logan’s Run. Looked it up on Wiki. A reminder that story concepts are universal according to Jung’s psychological theory.
Thanks J!
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The universal mind asserts itself again! 😊
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Does make me wonder about plagiarism in general though…
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Dear Tanille,
Josh took the words right out from under my fingertips. This really put me in mind of “Logan’s Run.” Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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A bit before my time. I just Wiki-ed Logan’s Run. Wow. And I was thinking Lord of the Flies meets the future.
Thanks R!
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Crikey, 30 seems a bit severe, make it 40 at least, then I’ll have a few months left to live! 🙂
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Yeah I pondered over that! I figured there would be exceptions, there always are.
Thanks I!
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Please, miss, can I be one of the ‘chosen few’?
If I have to die I’d like a wee bitty houghmagandie first!
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Are you rich and powerful sir?
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I can’t even spell rihc and proweluf, but I’m very nearly house-trained
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A very timely story to encourage us to conserve resources. You described a dome, but that could easily be a metaphor for Planet Earth.
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Yes. Might be all that’s left of the earth one day. I hope not.
Thanks P!
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If that’s the future I’m glad I live in the present. Well, quite glad, although I remember things being far more fun in the past!
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How far back are you going?
Thanks K!
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Ugh… No thanks. I think I’ll hang with the criminals…
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And live over 30! Makes me wonder what is beyond the dome.
Thanks D!
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Makes me want to chance it!
Pleasure, T!
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A story that reminded me of why I like Sci fi, Nicely done
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Thanks M, this one could go many places.
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Great, sad piece right there. Well done!
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Thanks R! Survival brings out the worse in society.
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Logan’s Run was a series that had a vivid and lasting impression on me. Your story revived the feelings I had at that time. Well done.
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I might have to track down Logan’s Run. It sounds like done right it would make a great reboot.
Thanks S!
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An horrific view of the future!
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I’m hoping there is life beyond the dome. But yes terrifying possible reality.
Thanks L!
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I don’t want to be part of a society of nothing but brainwashed youth. You don’t start growing wisdom until you finally mature–right around 30 🙂
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Iain suggests 40 might be a better age. Like you, it did cross my mind that our brains aren’t fully formed til about 25. Then I figured the rich always find loop holes.
Thanks L!
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it’s quite harsh for not letting anyone to live over the age of 30. but there’s a loophole as i wrote in a post sometime ago. 🙂
http://wp.me/p6FwZ-tS
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All about control. I bet the rich find loopholes.
Thanks P!
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Very “Logan’s Run” 🙂 It’s safe outside, people!
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But is it? Sizzle, sizzle, zap, zap? 😀
Thanks D!
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“:Logan’s Run” to the extreme! Great write!
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Thanks B!
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I like the idea of worshipping/praying to the dome. Get it ingrained in their heads before they ever know what it means. I think you nailed it with 30. Everything after that, completely superfluous.
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There is an old saying, something along the lines of “give me a 7-year-old boy and I’ll mould him into a man”. Brain washing starts young.
Thanks N!
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Wah! A scary time to live. Pol Pot rules against the aged. I enjoyed the dark humour where the children always know best.
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Children can only grasp one side to every story. Maturity makes us question (well generally speaking).
Thanks J!
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What a great way to describe the society with that prayer. I don’t know Logan’s run either and now want to see it. I think stories about totalitarian societies have many things in common. Fear for life and of the ‘other’, scapegoats (and here we are: it’s the Boomer’s faults) and brutal methods of enforcing the rules (made by the priviledged who are exempt, of course). We’re right on track, it seems.
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It’s creepy how close the West is to losing “human rights”/ democracy. Different rules for different groups does not end well. The rich stir the pot constantly…
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This sounds like it could really happen. How else will we survive?
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If they can make a done, makes me wonder about space ships…
Thanks B!
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Ok, so this is terrifying.
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And quite plausible. Humans tend to be savage under the right circumstances!
Thanks L
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