War Weather: Science Fiction
She hadn't wanted to be a war correspondent. She'd wanted to be a weather girl. Well, that was what her daddy had called it. It wasn't as easy as he'd thought it was, though; she'd gone to school and trained hard. There was a lot of competition, too. On Vicsois, the weather was deadly serious; between the gravity storms and the swift-changing seasons, a lot was depending on the mostly unpredictable weather, and none of the weather-work was something that folks could intuit out the reasons for, try as they might. So she was a weather girl. She'd been happy in her job, until things started going wrong not just for her job or her family, but for her whole planet. The others--
Inspiration: Pyle, a war correspondent in WWII.
Story Potential: Er, medium?
Notes: I love the title, though. And it's a moderately ok idea. People in the know flee, mercenaries come to town to recruit, pillage, etc., and a weather girl ends up being a tough-as-nails (sort of) war correspondent. It's an interesting character conceit.
Inspiration: Pyle, a war correspondent in WWII.
Story Potential: Er, medium?
Notes: I love the title, though. And it's a moderately ok idea. People in the know flee, mercenaries come to town to recruit, pillage, etc., and a weather girl ends up being a tough-as-nails (sort of) war correspondent. It's an interesting character conceit.