LJ Idol Season 9, Week 17: "Scare Quotes"

[theun4givables]

Ryan hitched up his backpack on a single shoulder and glanced around the busy street. He shoved his hands in his pockets, head hanging as the voices of his fellow students continued to follow him on his long walk home.

“Going to your rat’s nest, Carrier?” someone said to his left.

Comments

[tsuki_no_bara]

kinda freaky! and sad. and interesting! i too am curious to see more.

[theun4givables]

Thank you! :) Ryan's 'verse seems to get good reception, when it shows up for Idol. Here's to hoping he doesn't decide to steal my brain for the rest of my Idol run. ;)

[eternal_ot]

Ha! I wouldn't mind..;)

[theun4givables]

I'm a bit wary of doing serials for Idol. ;) We'll see what happens, though. :)

[bleodswean]

Great and creepy job on this!

[theun4givables]

Thank you! :)

[dmousey]

Ok Boo, you must keep this going! Love this and want to see where it's going. :)

[theun4givables]

Thank you. :) Ryan's 'verse is still heavily under construction. I have some vague ideas of what's happening in it and have built the world, some, but overall plot is still kind of...nonexistent. ;)

[eternal_ot]

Well it sure sucked me in at jet speed..and now hanging on for more..interesting world.let's see where it goes..*hugs* to Ryan.

[theun4givables]

Thank you. :)

And yes, many *hugs* to Ryan. <3

[i_17bingo]

Man, gingers just can't catch a break, can they?

It would be fascinating if the disease really was real. That would mean the conflict here was not society making something up (or believing something that wasn't true), but rather the conflict would be how a *scare-quote* civilized *un-scare-quote* society deals with a very real threat.

[theun4givables]

Nope, they really can't! Poor Ryan.

In previous drafts/iterations of this, the Disease WAS real. At least, it was several generations before the events of the novel. Whether it's still a risk, considering the number of times the human race has undergone engineering at this point, I'm not sure.

But I do kind of want it to be real. Whether Ryan's a "Carrier" or not has yet to be determined.