Stained Glass Harvest: Science Fiction

[penthius]

The stained glass windows shone like gold as the late autumn light poured through them, making the sheaves of wheat glow from within with a holy light that he'd never seen in actual harvests, not even by day's end, when the suns sank lower in the sky and everything seemed to be a little brighter. The weariness and the pain in his back by that time was enough to make him ignore any such signs and look only for his chit to get a draft of beer from the tavern. It was little enough, and he knew it, knew somehow within himself that working th harvest was a hard enough job that payment should be more than a trencher of bread with stew and--

Inspiration: Stained glass wheel.
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Ah, subsistence colonization. That's gotta suck. Kinda interesting to read about, though. I really like the title....

Comments

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

The sheer level of disappointment I felt that they were not, in fact, harvesting stained glass is signficant.

[penthius.livejournal.com]

Well, I kept the title. Maybe someday I'll write a story about actually harvesting stained glass.

Not stealing, "inspired by"

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

Not if I do it first!

Or... not. Or I guess you still could but redundantly, but in all honesty the whole thing'll probably just get lost in my mountains of notes.

Re: Not stealing, "inspired by"

[penthius.livejournal.com]

I do believe that that it's entirely possible to come up with very different results starting from the same seed. I mean, most everything is derived from a finite set of ideas.

And no, it really isn't stealing if it's just from the title!

Re: Not stealing, "inspired by"

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

Speak for yourself. Everything I come up with is derived from an infinite set of ideas. BRILLIANT!

Yeah, that's why it's safe. This time. Sometimes when I respond to these I get craaazy ideas that appeal to me or spin up in discussion and it always seems to hit that midline of theft vs. inspired-by.

Re: Not stealing, "inspired by"

[penthius.livejournal.com]

Sometimes when I respond to these I get craaazy ideas

That's why you're fun!