2012-04-07

2012-04-07 09:18 am

Wake Up, Time to Die: Science Fiction

"Wake up, time to die!" boomed the overhead speakers at 6 AM. We all groaned and threw pillows at the video monitors--that joke was old before we were born, and we knew it. Cultural induction meant that we got to watch all the pop culture from the twenty years before we were born and most of the current stuff, too, though we knew they censored things they thought might alter our psyches from the current youth movements. I don't know why they thought current events would have more influence on us than past ones; from our view in the bunker, it was all the same. And so we had a flapper and a Goth among us, even if the flapper could only cut her hair appropriately and roll up long fake cigarette holders out of paper, and the Goth could only manage lipstick in a really dark shade of red, and foundation for the pale-skinned, not the dead-skinned.

Inspiration: Mention of the Suicide Squad comic book (which I haven't read or heard of before--http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1401235441/boingboing), and an article about Stalin notebooks selling in Moscow (http://boingboing.net/2012/04/06/stalin-notebooks-are-hot-selle.html)
Story Potential: Medium? High?
Notes: This is a strange, weird, sideways world, and I like it.