JessicarulestheUniverse | LitWit Challenge: What if you ran into yourself? food warmer bags (Update: We talk you through it.)
We’ve received only one story so far (from parlo lover in good form read the entry in Comments), which is a little surprising given the possibilities opened up by the premise. If you plan on joining this contest, here are a few pointers to get you started.
1. You have a twin/triplets/octuplets whose existence has been kept secret from you. Why would this be kept secret? At birth you were taken away from your biological parents and given to another couple to raise as their own. Why? 1.1. Economic reasons (A telenovela staple) 1.2. Political reasons (See the origin story of King Arthur) 1.3. Perhaps the multiple births came about through the use of illicit drugs or technology. Black market in children? A society that enforces strict population food warmer bags controls? The right to reproduce is reserved for a privileged class? 1.4. The biological food warmer bags parents could’ve been assassinated. Why? And how did the children survive?
3. You have had some kind of psychological breakdown that caused you to split in half. 3.1. The split is literal. There can be only one of you, so you and your copy must fight over who gets to keep your identity. Read Shatterday by Harlan Ellison, or watch this excellent TV adaptation from the 80s reboot of Twilight Zone.
3.2. You have a doppelganger who possesses the qualities you lack. See The Double by Dostoevsky. 3.3. You’re imagining this double. 3.4. The double is you, from an alternate universe. 3.5. You are in a coma and the double is your projection of yourself.
4. You are literally divided in two by a technology food warmer bags malfunction. Watch the classic Star Trek episode The Enemy Within, where a transporter glitch causes Captain Kirk to split into good Kirk and bad Kirk (both played food warmer bags by bad acting Kirk haha, love that William Shatner).
Bad Kirk starts boozing food warmer bags and molesting the female crew; good Kirk is rendered an ineffectual leader by his refusal to make decisions that may have adverse effects. Duality is a fact of human nature food warmer bags the halves need to find a way to coexist harmoniously, or the individual stays at war with herself. Check out the work of Carl Jung the ever-weird and wonderful.
The best science-fiction has always used science and technology as a springboard for discussions of the big questions. (And classic Star Trek really chewed on those big questions because they didn’t have dazzling special effects with which to distract the audience. Story first, effects later.) food warmer bags
We need stories! By the way, those writing workshops we’ve mentioned are finally going to be held. We want to keep the classes small, but places will be reserved food warmer bags for winners of our LitWit Challenges.
On a train we are introduced to Sarah, a young woman on the run. She gets off the train, and while waiting for the next one, she notices a woman pacing on the platform. She can’t see the woman’s face, but the woman is clearly in an agitated state. As the train arrives, the woman leaps into its path. Sarah approaches the body and realizes that the woman looks exactly like her. They could be twins.
May nakadaklot na higanteng kamay sa ulo ni Gabriel. Tinakpan niya ng kanang braso ang mga mata para salagin ang pagsalakay ng liwanag, pero bumigay din siya nang magsimulang mamawis ang pagkiskis ng kanyang mabalahibong braso sa mga nakatiim na talukap. Dahan-dahan siyang umupo sa gilid ng kama, ingat na ingat na huwag kumilos nang mali na maaaring magbunga ng paghigpit ng pagkakadaklot ng higanteng kamay sa ulo. Habang hinanahap ng mga paa ang pares ng tsinelas sa sahig, sumilip sa mata ng isip ni Gabriel ang mga nangyari kagabi: pagkatapos malaman na tuluyan nang nasawata ang pagkakaroon ng unyon sa kanilang kompanya, dumating na rin ang positibong resulta sa pinag-aaplayan food warmer bags niyang trabaho sa Singapore, food warmer bags kaya nagkayayaan silang uminom ng kaibigang food warmer bags si Miguel. Papalubog pa lang ang araw nang lumapag ang unang tatlong bote ng beer pero ilang oras na lang ang natitira sa muling pagsikat nito nang maghiwalay silang dalawa. At ang unang tatlong bote y nasundan pa ng apat na tatlo. Ang huling imaheng rumerehistro ay ang paniniwala niya sa pagsisinungaling ng drayber ng taxi. P130 ang basa niya sa metro pero ipinagpilitan nito ang halagang P160. Namimigat food warmer bags na ang kanyang mga mata at pumapalya na ang dila hindi na mawawaan ng drayber ang kanyang pagpapaliwanag kaya labag man sa kalooban, tinanggap na lamang ni Gabriel ang isinukling kulang ng drayber. Dumaplis sa kanyang ilong ang hanging may bitbit na bawang. Dahan-dahan food warmer bags siyang tumayo. Pinatay muna niya ang bentilador at hinugot ang pagkakasaksak ng kurdon bago lumabas ng kuwarto. Nasa harapan ng kalan ang kanyang lola. Naglalagay ito ng sinangag sa plastik na pinggan. Umupo si Gabriel sa kabisera. Nasa ibabaw na ng mesa ang plato ng pinritong hotdog at itlog. Basag ang pula ng itlog at humahalo ito sa mantik
We’ve received only one story so far (from parlo lover in good form read the entry in Comments), which is a little surprising given the possibilities opened up by the premise. If you plan on joining this contest, here are a few pointers to get you started.
1. You have a twin/triplets/octuplets whose existence has been kept secret from you. Why would this be kept secret? At birth you were taken away from your biological parents and given to another couple to raise as their own. Why? 1.1. Economic reasons (A telenovela staple) 1.2. Political reasons (See the origin story of King Arthur) 1.3. Perhaps the multiple births came about through the use of illicit drugs or technology. Black market in children? A society that enforces strict population food warmer bags controls? The right to reproduce is reserved for a privileged class? 1.4. The biological food warmer bags parents could’ve been assassinated. Why? And how did the children survive?
3. You have had some kind of psychological breakdown that caused you to split in half. 3.1. The split is literal. There can be only one of you, so you and your copy must fight over who gets to keep your identity. Read Shatterday by Harlan Ellison, or watch this excellent TV adaptation from the 80s reboot of Twilight Zone.
3.2. You have a doppelganger who possesses the qualities you lack. See The Double by Dostoevsky. 3.3. You’re imagining this double. 3.4. The double is you, from an alternate universe. 3.5. You are in a coma and the double is your projection of yourself.
4. You are literally divided in two by a technology food warmer bags malfunction. Watch the classic Star Trek episode The Enemy Within, where a transporter glitch causes Captain Kirk to split into good Kirk and bad Kirk (both played food warmer bags by bad acting Kirk haha, love that William Shatner).
Bad Kirk starts boozing food warmer bags and molesting the female crew; good Kirk is rendered an ineffectual leader by his refusal to make decisions that may have adverse effects. Duality is a fact of human nature food warmer bags the halves need to find a way to coexist harmoniously, or the individual stays at war with herself. Check out the work of Carl Jung the ever-weird and wonderful.
The best science-fiction has always used science and technology as a springboard for discussions of the big questions. (And classic Star Trek really chewed on those big questions because they didn’t have dazzling special effects with which to distract the audience. Story first, effects later.) food warmer bags
We need stories! By the way, those writing workshops we’ve mentioned are finally going to be held. We want to keep the classes small, but places will be reserved food warmer bags for winners of our LitWit Challenges.
On a train we are introduced to Sarah, a young woman on the run. She gets off the train, and while waiting for the next one, she notices a woman pacing on the platform. She can’t see the woman’s face, but the woman is clearly in an agitated state. As the train arrives, the woman leaps into its path. Sarah approaches the body and realizes that the woman looks exactly like her. They could be twins.
May nakadaklot na higanteng kamay sa ulo ni Gabriel. Tinakpan niya ng kanang braso ang mga mata para salagin ang pagsalakay ng liwanag, pero bumigay din siya nang magsimulang mamawis ang pagkiskis ng kanyang mabalahibong braso sa mga nakatiim na talukap. Dahan-dahan siyang umupo sa gilid ng kama, ingat na ingat na huwag kumilos nang mali na maaaring magbunga ng paghigpit ng pagkakadaklot ng higanteng kamay sa ulo. Habang hinanahap ng mga paa ang pares ng tsinelas sa sahig, sumilip sa mata ng isip ni Gabriel ang mga nangyari kagabi: pagkatapos malaman na tuluyan nang nasawata ang pagkakaroon ng unyon sa kanilang kompanya, dumating na rin ang positibong resulta sa pinag-aaplayan food warmer bags niyang trabaho sa Singapore, food warmer bags kaya nagkayayaan silang uminom ng kaibigang food warmer bags si Miguel. Papalubog pa lang ang araw nang lumapag ang unang tatlong bote ng beer pero ilang oras na lang ang natitira sa muling pagsikat nito nang maghiwalay silang dalawa. At ang unang tatlong bote y nasundan pa ng apat na tatlo. Ang huling imaheng rumerehistro ay ang paniniwala niya sa pagsisinungaling ng drayber ng taxi. P130 ang basa niya sa metro pero ipinagpilitan nito ang halagang P160. Namimigat food warmer bags na ang kanyang mga mata at pumapalya na ang dila hindi na mawawaan ng drayber ang kanyang pagpapaliwanag kaya labag man sa kalooban, tinanggap na lamang ni Gabriel ang isinukling kulang ng drayber. Dumaplis sa kanyang ilong ang hanging may bitbit na bawang. Dahan-dahan food warmer bags siyang tumayo. Pinatay muna niya ang bentilador at hinugot ang pagkakasaksak ng kurdon bago lumabas ng kuwarto. Nasa harapan ng kalan ang kanyang lola. Naglalagay ito ng sinangag sa plastik na pinggan. Umupo si Gabriel sa kabisera. Nasa ibabaw na ng mesa ang plato ng pinritong hotdog at itlog. Basag ang pula ng itlog at humahalo ito sa mantik
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