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Also today's short story is longer then my previous stories.
Spoon Fed an Upgraded Life
By Nekodra K.D. LaCroix
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BImmortal Corp. has out
done themselves, from Vamp-Upgrade, 15 years back in their starting up year.
For those who never took the upgrade or have forgotten, Vu (Vamp-Upgrade), the
discovering essentially of the fountain of youth, they were able to suspend
your cells so their aging process is essentially taken a screeching halt, since
the cells are technically no longer alive, illness can not infect them, and this
upgrade can extent your life by 150-250 years. As with everything, it various
from person to person, it’s not a life for everyone, and there are draw backs.
The only real draw back is that Vu’s have to ingest almost daily the special serum,
which can only be made with fresh O negative blood, because it spoils if not
ingested within approximately 10 minutes of leaving the hosts boding into the
Vu. There is also the slight sensitivity to sunlight, but nothing extensive, a
little sunscreen and you’re golden for a day at the beach. On that subject,
research has shown they still don’t know why we, Vu’s, eyes gained the
iridescent tinge, or the sharpening of the canine teeth, at least that was
released for public knowledge.
The latest technology
from BIT Corp. (BImmortal-Tech Corporation) is a hit, operations for the installations
are booking fast and if you haven’t made your appointment yet, then you’re
going to be out of sync with the rest of the world for virtually the next year.
What’s that latest, you
ask? Do you live in dial up? BIT Corp. has announced, what everyone on the Webs
have been leaking for days, the rumors says Vice President of Biotech
Implications, Matt Loren, was the one to have supposedly leaked this viral news
and has now been exiled from BImmortal Island. Claiming he wanted to get
controversy started up before it officially went public, look for that story in
tomorrow.
The official
announcement on BIT Corporation’s latest product was yesterday evening on their
personal internet video channel, in which they had posted links on every
website imaginable to get countless to tune in, and oh, how they succeed. The
video is still looping for those rare few who have yet to view it. Here is the
[LINK].
“ToBio-pad, where you
have become your own laptop; forget your iphone, forget your Hp touchsmart,
toss out your Mac, and make your installation appointment today!” Their wordy
slogan used in the announcement video. Along with visuals of ToBio-Pad, short
clip of the installation, and specs for the tech-lovers.
On the topic of specs,
let’s look at some of those for a moment, to give insight for those of you who haven’t
heard about this, for those who can’t understand the Geek lingo used in the
announcement video, or those who can’t read enough about ToBio-Pad
This is an all in one, BIT
Corp. brand, Touchsmart Tablet computer, its also your phone, your Kindle,
video collection, gaming center, and as a standard with all computers, 7G or 8G
wireless internet access, depending on what monthly payments you can afford,
and if you really hurting for credits you can get the ancient 4G for free
because what is the point of your computer if you don’t have internet?
For the installation, to
start with, you pick left or right, the opposite of your dominate hand. Or if
you like to use both arms, they do offer a special deal for getting one on each
arm. Buy two, get the second 30% off, for a limited time offer.
Then based on your
available credits or how much you’re willing to spend, you can pick: 2 in. x
2.5 in., 3 in. x 3.5 in., 3.8 in. x 4.5 in. Other then money can effect the
size of your screen, that being the size of your forearm, because that’s where
it will be placed. If your still growing you might want to wait for the child
friendly edition, for young growing kids, you don’t want to be stuck with a
tiny screen for the rest of your life.
Also the rumor is that
if you are one of those you haven’t made your appointment yet, well then you
made the right choice, because in next years models, the screen folds open,
effectively doubling the current available sizes. In tomorrow’s article, Matt Loren
tells why BIT Corp. is having problems with it, and why he leaked ToBio-pad
before it was officially released.
Back to the inner
workings of ToBio-pad, scientist have combined the flexible batteries and the
ground breaking discovering of using ATP (adenosine triphosphate – which is
essentially the exchange of energy that is present in almost all living cells)
a team of scientist have created a transistor that is able to harness that
energy and it can be installed directly to the nervous system.
For those who don’t want
the screen on your arm or for those who want more options, then treat yourself
to some new contacts. Don’t have bad eye sight; well that’s not the point. This
places the screen of your computer just a few inches in front your eyes, and a
touch pad can be installed in your arm, palm of your hand, or using your
current T-pad.
"Our hope is to
create images that effectively float in front of the user perhaps 50 cm to 1 m
away," says Babak Parviz, one of the scientists from the team who worked
on the contact screens.
With a few safety draw
backs, BIT corp. claims ToBio-pad is completely safe so long as you follow
their safety tips. Head CEO of BIT corp. Vincent Van Vital, had this to say in
their announcement video, “Our hope is that everyone within the next year with
have ToBio-pad. With your purchase of a ToBio-Pad, we will give you a free upgrade
for your current model of T-pad, so it will wirelessly through ToBio-pad,
charge itself when it goes below 20% battery life. We are also working on a child version, Crus-pad
(Childrens replaceable upgraded screen) that will be easily upgraded as they
out grow the small screen that would have to be used for their smaller arms.
This is a step
towards a brighter greener future, for our beloved planet Earth; we want to
weed out any unnecessary energy waste by having alternative ways to charge our
wonderful electronics. By using our own bodies to fuel and recharge our loved
computers, then we minimize the energy we have to harness from the earth. We,
BIT corp. have saved the trees by stopping the production of paper books and
converting every book electronically into a large data base for all to access, we
have created trees that are grown with sea urchin shaped nanoparticles to make
bio-LEDs, so that the leaves glow to rid ourselves of those nasty energy
wasting street lamps, we solved the oil gas powered car problem, we have almost
completely ridded ourselves of garbage dumps by building Microbial fuel cells
in every town, so each town can power themselves with their waste, and now we
can power our T-pads that we use daily, for communicating via texting, calling,
or emailing, that is used for many jobs at home so we can have more time with
our family, our treasured T-pads that keep us in touch with the world, can now
be part of ourselves and powered with our own bodies! Help us to help save our
planet from our ancestor’s mistakes, for a brighter future for coming
generations!”
Also, as mention there
is a free upgrade for your T-pad if you still in love with it, pre-installed their
new sync program will to connect your ToBio-pad and your T-pad, so that when
you want to work with your larger screened T-pad for homework, career work, or
watching a Vid, a constant connected between all your computers will be there
to make it quick and easy for all aged users.
Plug into the future, by
plugging into your ToBio-pad today!
By Nekodra K.D. LaCroix
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Shaking her head,
Nekodra outstretched her fingers on the screen and pulled them together,
virtually crumpling the paper, and flicked it with her index finger, only to
have it bounce of the rim of her virtual recycling bin. “Drat” She muttered as
the screen flashes, Current Streak(s): 0 Highest streak(s): 14. Moving her finger across the
screen to pick it up and dropping it into the virtual waste bin.
Unsure why she even
bothered to re-read her own paper, she knew what the topic was, and she knew
her job relied on spinning a good light on the subject, but that doesn’t mean she likes it, and that won’t stop her from
sending the anonymous comment to herself under her pseudonym name, Vinni Vix Inkorus,
which took weeks to set up properly through the Webs. About a month ago
everything fell into place and the second identity was a success, now she could
write the articles she wanted to without fear of losing her job. She knew how
many views her articles received, so she knew that if she can respond to her
articles quick enough to make it in the first few comments. Thousands would see
it and maybe the masses will start thinking for themselves again, one can hope
that a single question will cascade into many.
A heavy sigh was
slowly exhaled while glancing at her calendar, where only one appointment stood
out to her among the sea of notes and reminders.
Wednesday: 7am
appointment for upgrade to ToBio-Pad
Apprehensive that
Wednesday was looming near, as with all the mandatory upgrades she wasn’t
looking forward to it, but being a writer for Future-Tech News, she had to
favor her articles toward BIT Corp. - because they paid her checks in hush-hush
way, and because that was a clause in her contract. She was required to take
any and all upgrades her employer wanted her to. Not that her choice in jobs mattered
on the subject, almost every employer these days determines if an upgrade is
required in order to continue your employment.
What a world it has become.
Wednesday evening, 9pm.
Wincing, she poked
the edges of the computer where her skin and technology met; it was red and
slightly swollen. They had given her a host of likely unneeded antibiotics, to
fight off possible infection while it heals and the skin adjusts to Bio-metal
coating around the computer. Lying back in bed she reached for the bag of pill
proscribed by the doctor, pulling them out one at a time reading over their
ingredients.
“Hmm,
they weren’t paying attention when they proscribed this one; I am allergic to
two of the ingredients. Doctors-” Sighing, as she tossed it in down silver and
black abstract designed garbage can, almost unnoticeably shaped like a crescent
moon and a star filling the rounded gap; she listened as the sensors beeped to
acknowledge the new presence. The humming began, which was the sound of it
analyzing the new item, 6 seconds later one of the trap doors slide open and
the rush of air sucking it down, then a click as the door shut. The process
started up again as she tossed two more pill bottles in. Looking at the
remaining bottles, she set 2 of them on her bed side table and tossed the
others in the garbage can.
“Why
they even bothered with pain killers, I have no idea, they cut several of the
nerve endings, and I can barely feel the immediate area around the computer, so
there isn’t any pain just tenderness which will pass like a new piercing, as
the skin adjusts. Doctors, what a joke.”
Taking a deep
breath, she hit the power switch. There was a pinch as she felt it start up,
she could feel several waves pulling energy from the surrounding cells, and as
the tech-support suggested, she down a protein shake, because until her body
adjusted to the needed extra energy for the computer, she would have to make
sure she ate more then her normal daily portions for the next week and a half,
and by the second week start lowering it back to her normal amount. They also
told her, each person will react differently and the degree of how much the
permanent increase her portion size will vary, which will be a guessing game
till she finds the right amount to suit her needs. If she is not careful, there
will be an unhealthy lose of weight. It will range depending on her usage of
the computer.
The highly paid
‘specialist’ warned her about over usage. If a user starts to get extremely
tired while the system is on, they have to be sure and eat something or they
could pass out, which it could cause the computer to crash, then it could send
a backlash shock to the user’s system, giving a heart attack that is not
survivable. They also gave her a complementary safety E-booklet, to cover their
own asses.
She
went through the introduction, skipping through much of the tutorial, she
wasn’t a newbie to technology by any means, and a lot of it she had already
read, because she wasn’t going to accept this blindly, if she had to get it, she
was going to research it intensively. Most of the safety warnings were common
sense, not that it was all that common anymore with people blindly following
the trends like lemmings over a cliff.
Already she
expected to be doing an article on the increase of deaths in the near future as
people who bought ToBio on a whim don’t pay attention,
resulting in killing themselves by misuse of the device. The article, if it
comes up of course will be spun in the light of, you signed the agreement and they - BIT corp. - will not be held responsible for misuse
of the computers, and they gave you all the information to prevent these
deaths. How it’s not the technology’s fault if the user doesn’t properly use
the machine. It’s perfectly safe.
She rolled her
eyes at the thought, already forming the article in her mind to be prepared to
write it later.
Welcome to ToBio-Pad!
Please
fill in the following information, we at © BImmortal-Tech Corp. thank you!
Enter User Name:
First: Nekodra
Middle:
Kisuchi
Last:
Dracula-LaCroix
Marital Status: |
Taking a deep
breath, to re-orientate her thoughts away from the impending thoughts that
would overwhelm her, typing:
Marital Status: Widowed |
6 months ago, one of the zealots, of the
factions against Bio-technology, which bio-tech was now the ‘norm’ when it
comes to any new tech; their argument was normal of almost all the rare
spiritual religion factions that still clung to the old ways. Clinging to their
paper books, of which the production of
paper books stopped 7 years ago, an effort to preserve the few remaining true
forests left, almost all mountains were sectioned national treasures across the
world, and have been left nearly untouched, there for everyone to enjoy and
visit for a small fee of course, because it cost money to not do anything to
something. Then besides historical building, currently deemed important enough
to keep around, any home made of wood or brick have been torn down, town by
town, replacing family homes will all different sized apartment complexes, made
of metal, ones for large families, singles, and the filthy rich, who are given
several floors with a personal elevator to themselves, and only theirs goes to
there floors.
There are reservations for the religions
groups who refuse to adapt to the way the world has shifted, stuck in the 19th
century. But once in a while, they sneak out of there towns, and disrupt things
for the normal people. This time, it resulted in the deaths of millions of Vu’s
(Vampire-upgraded), managing to poison a day’s worth of serum. Some Vu’s died
from starvation from blood, because it took 7 days to clean the factories that
make the serum that’s injected into O negative donors, and to flush the systems
of every O negative donor in the world, because it’s a single factory of BIT
Corp. that produces the injection, and they had to be sure that none where left
contaminated in anyway. They also took time to upgrade the serum, in case they
tried the same attack again, with the same poison. That was the official report
from BIT Corps. Private Investigation Services.
Those who feed that day, before the
discovery was made, suffered more then those who starved waiting for it to be
safe to feed again, and her husband, Viix V. Dracula, was one of them. Those
who ‘starved’ there bodies had gone into shock from withdrawal and there cells
were unable to fully revive themselves, and they died almost like falling
asleep. She had missed her scheduled feeding, because she had been so focused
on her paper, she was doing a favor to a friend who was writing a book on the
life of Vu’s.
She had to laugh at herself, part to keep
sane and part because of the irony, she had been describing the sensation of
feeding from another human, and the strange hunger that was nothing like
missing a days meal of normal food which Vu’s still needed as well, just
smaller portions. The hunger for blood was a more gripping hunger, almost like
movies make us out to be, like a demon, an animal self that was clawing for
life, clawing it take over and do anything for food, but that really only
surfaced if you go days. She read horror article story about a family who
didn’t have the credits to pay for a feeding for several days and they tore
each others throats out trying to get blood, unable to make the distinction
between each other and a viable food source.
She
was doing this now, because she didn’t schedule a feeding the day before to
better help herself to describe such a feeling, on a minor level, but she was
planning to be done with it that tonight, it wasn’t a pleasant feeling and to
be honest it scared her.
Her and Viix where being their silly selves
and making a date of it, they had a very close friend who was O negative and
one of the blood donors, they had been good friends before the Vu was created.
It made it easier, then drinking from a stranger, especially the sensations of
feeding, and unless you’re a promiscuous person, it’s not something you would
like to do with a complete stranger. She had been looking forward to it all day,
it wasn’t often they paid for double feeding; it was going to be a fun night.
She had to texted Viix, saying she was
taking longer then she thought on writing this section of the paper, and to go
ahead and feed, she would call up another of their regular donors later when
she finished, because Ivianna had plans at 4pm and would be busy most the rest
of the night.
People still keep telling her its not her
fault, but that is a lie, if she had not been putting of that paper because of
work and if she had not procrastinated they would have had that date another
night, or if she had typed faster and joined him, they would have suffered
together, if she had said come home, we can have our date in a few hours with
someone else, instead of telling him to go head and feed, then the warning text
to every Vu’s would have reached them before they had feed and they both might
have lived, having each other to help work through the hunger as they waited
for the ‘all-clear’.
There are so many things she could have done
different, he only took the Vu because he wanted to live a long life with her
and she had to take the upgrade because of work. He didn’t want to die long
before her, leaving her alone as a Vu’s for another 100-200 years, the cruel
irony life likes to throw about, keeping that small belief alive that there is
some force out there that likes to pick on us, lesser beings.
His death and many others who feed that day,
was far greater then the ones who suffered withdrawal from the serum, his
death, each cell was slowly brought back to life, successfully, and on top of
that being a shock to the system, the actual poison could then attack the now re-living
cells, it was like Necrotizing fasciitis, but it was a modified strain, somehow modified to
eat slowly, most often only targeting the heart, likely because it was
transferred from infected blood, what’s more mysteries is it only attack Vu’s,
no donor died, other then those who commit suicide from guilt or other reasons,
related to this Bio-terrorist attack.
Ivianna had texted her, ‘911, [Link current
location] HURRY’ It may have eaten slowing in comparison its cousin, but
because it really only attacked the heart, and didn’t start from an open wound,
thus the solution of cutting off the infected limb wasn’t possible, so it
didn’t take long for it to damage the heart enough to kill the host.
She had made it there before he died, he was
so delirious from the pain, he was one of the few that it attack multiple
organs, lungs, heart, he had multiple ulcers because it ate through his stomach
lining, it had even started on his brain, before his body couldn’t take it
anymore and died, permanently. The organs were too damaged and there was no way
to know what was infected, so there was no point in an emergency organ
replacement surgery, the ability to print out organs so that ‘No longer will
your loved ones die from waiting on the unfortunate death of a matching
candidate, so they can live. Now we have print out any organ you need; now you
can continue to smoke and just buy new lungs when yours become too warn again
and again.” (BIT corp. CEO Vincent Van Vital, 2013, Printing Life.) She remembered that interview well, her
first big article and the ‘honor’ of talking to Mr. Vital face to face, his
charm was unbelievable and she had to take a cold shower afterwards, forgetting
for a while that she hated BIT corp. with every technology replaced cell placed
in her.
She can never be sure if Viix knew she was
even there. But she liked to think her presence helped ease his pain, the
little hubris in everyone, whispering sweet reassuring murmurs, ‘of course your
presence made him better’, ‘of course he knew you where there’, ‘you love is
stronger then anyone’s’, ‘there is such a connection between you both that in
your next life, you will be together again.’
The bacteria was resistant to everything the
doctor tried, not even pain killers could ease the pain, it was such a shock to
the system that body didn’t know what to do with them.
At first the doctor’s wouldn’t let her in
the room, unsure if it was airborne, she told them,
‘Go to hell! I don’t give a damn about
regulations, if the room is quarantined; Fine! I will be willing to stay until
you lift the quarantine. I have my T-pad, I can continue to work as I sit in
that room, for as long as it takes to prove its not airborne and what better
way to test then having another Vu in the room!’ Voice raising as she talked, then
pushed past them, she could tell none of them were Vu’s, leaving them no match
for her, pushing them aside with ease into the chamber between the hall and
into the blindingly white clean room, getting blasted by sterilizing mist as
the door behind her relocked, out of the corner of her eyes she saw them key a
code in the keypad and heard the five deadbolts click into place, she was lucky
she got there when she did, those bolts won’t unlock until the number of days
keyed in were up, not even the building on fire would unlock it, if your in
quarantine and the building burns down, you stand no hope.
Nothing overrides quarantine, the fact that
they didn’t even hesitate to quarantine her and Ivianna in there, means how
serious of an epidemic it was, and she was sure every Vu was rounded up who
feed today, along with every donor. Feedings where logged, and they won’t risk
it being spread if it can be helped.
The lock had been set for 7 days,
her and Ivianna were trapped with the dead body of her husband, it was hard to
bare, and hard to go through the denial stage with the hard fact facing her
every moment.
There was good ventilation in these clean rooms,
and someone was kind because they barely smelled the decaying body, there was
always the aroma of cinnamon and spice or the scent of a rainstorm, someone did
their research and found her favorite scents. It reassured her that some people
still had a true heart.
By the 3rd day, I had
found the restrains the doctors used to tied down a struggling or convict
patient, and had locked them around one arm and most sturdy object in the room,
the door handle, having moved one the cushioned chairs over to it, I faced away
from her, to help try and forget she was there. My eyes had become a vivid red
I had never seen before; nothing was left of my ice blue eyes. My breathing had
become spastic, vision boarded in red, and I swore my canines had even grown in
length. I was scaring myself and I could see I was scaring her, which was also
why I faced away from her.
And suffice to say, I wrote a more
detailed and better article on hunger after I had mostly recovered from the
whole ordeal. My friend, though reassuring her condolences, was very happy with
the story; it made her book a best seller.
On the 5th day, Ivianna
killed herself, partly from the guilt, blaming herself for Viix’s death and
regardless of what was said, afraid I would never forgive her, but mostly
because my hunger was so overwhelming by that point. When I awoke from a fitful
sleep on that 5th day; groggy rubbing my eyes, I saw I had broken
free of my restraints, later I concluded that Ivianna
must have been awake when I broke free of the restraints, and must have
been afraid I would attack her in my sleep or when I awoke.
Ivianna had taken a needle from one of the
cabinets and put an air bubble into her own blood stream. Killing herself, so
that in my haze of hunger I wouldn’t feed and suffer the same fate as my
husband. But its hard to actually know the reason, maybe it was simply being
confided to a room with a dead body for an unknown amount of time, and that was
too much, or the guilt of being the gun that fire the bullet of his death, or
perhaps it was to save me from myself. Whatever the reason, her blood was no
longer fresh, no longer substance that could sustain me, and I could feel the
rise in anger at her selfishness of denying me blood, before the red haze faded
slightly, and I regained better control over myself.
I walked over, closing her eyelids
and kissing her forehead, and turned facing my husband, and broke down. Sliding
to my knees I held on tight to his hand and I don’t recall the 2 days the came
after, next I knew I woke in another room, with an IV hooked up to my arm,
connected to a donor I didn’t know. I had heard this was an option for those
who can’t handle drinking straight from the donor, but it had never been
something I had considered, I had made many friends who where donors and so I
feed from them.
We never spoke, after a short period
he pulled out both our IV’s and left, but not before placing a box on the
bedside table, containing my husbands T-pad, wedding ring, and his dark thick
lab coat.
She still didn’t
recall much of the week after either, and had
been given paid leave for 4 days, but didn’t report back to work for 8. With
the help of some programs on her husbands T-Pad, was able to make the fake
identity, Vinni V. Inkorus which will allow her to spread the word against BIT
corp. and expose their deceiving ways, by pulling of the blinders they’ve
placed on the public, by getting readers to think about the truth of what they
have done and are doing to our lives, to our freedoms.
An interview with Matt Loren had revealed the truth
behind the attack on Vu’s. It wasn’t the religious zealots; it was BIT Corp.
using them as a scape goat, because if anyone really gave it a second thought,
only BIT corp. has the technology to make such a strain of Necrotizing fasciitis,
only BIT corp. could have the access to contaminate all those donors. Only BIT
corp. has the multimillion credits available to put the research into such a
task and implement it.
BIT corp. has been
spreading its wired tentacles into everything, infecting the world as they
claim to being doing what’s best for us. Telling us the best ‘upgrades’ to live
a better life, implementing plans that will make our lives better, without
giving us a choice if that’s what we want, under the claim of selflessly saving
our planet from the mistakes of our ancestors to better the lives of our
children.
BIT corp. killed
about half the population of Vu’s to save their own asses, our supply of food
and water for the world was decreasing because there were millions around the
world living longer then they were meant to over the last 15 years, which had
caused the world population to sky rocket in an already over populated planet.
Leaving only a few months before a notice in available food would crop up,
before people started to notice how crowded schools were becoming with the
increase of children from the increase of people who weren’t dying, as all
those kids borne around that generation are getting ready to start to have kids
of their own.
BIT corp. was so
focused on fathering us, deciding our lives for us even though they did so
without considering the consequences that the technology would have long term,
as example with creating the fountain of youth, with the result of a population
too large for our planet, they were so focused on controlling our lives and
blinding us, they stopped looking to the stars, we stopped looking to the stars,
we stopped searching for life on other planets, forgetting the option of
colonizing other planets to accommodate our ever growing population, and
cuddling of the masses as Darwinism just tossed to side, forgotten.
They kept us, the
people, distracted by shiny new technology and chemically enhanced food, which
stopped us from questioning as they spoon fed a ‘better’ life down our throats,
with side effects that have been making our lives worse, and still we say nothing
because we have forgotten how to question.
References:
Articles used to for the base of the technology
advances:
Bates, G.; Thornrton, J.; and Partridge,
L. The New Science of Aging
Bland, E. Glowing Trees to Replace Glowing Lamps, Discovery Channel News,
November 24th 2010
Britt, Robert Roy Contact Lenses to Double as TVs,
February 9th, 2009 at 4:26pm
Dillow, C. Bioelectric Nanotube Transistor Could Bring Biology and Machines closer
Together, May 12th, 2010 at 3:53pm
Grifantini, K. Microbes for Off-the-Grid Electricity, September 4th,
2008
Hall, K. Bendy Batteries bring us one step closer to flexible gadgets, February
28th, 2011 at 6:12pm
Hall, K. 3D ‘Bioprinting’ remakes skin today, body parts tomorrow, February
22nd, 2011 at 8:04pm
Than, K. Extending Human Life: Progress and Promises, May 24th,
2006 at 6:02am
Image of Nekodra, drawn by Nekodra K.D. LaCroix
Afterword
Honestly,
I am still a little shocked and a bit giddy. I had hoped someone from Psych
would actually look at the post I made yesterday, but I wasn’t holding my
breath and I wasn’t expecting a reply, but Timothy Omundson did, he said thank
you back in a tweet. That was nice, it made me feel good. I don’t know if
anyone else from Psych looked at it, but I hope others see it too. So if anyone
else from Psych stumbles here, it’s the post titled “A Big Thank You” that I
posted to you guys. An honest thank you for any and all people involved, I just
think you guys have made a awesome show, and I think you deserve a Thank you
for it, and I mean ANY and ALL who are involved with the process of
creating/working on the show Psych.
But,
I already said this in yesterday’s post and I made a forward, so I won’t bore
anyone by talking about it anymore, on to today’s short story, which is that
Vampire Sci-fi story from my Biology/English class I mentioned in another post.
The
beginning, which I hope is obvious, is suppose to be like an online news
article, which at the end of the short story I have the list of references for
the quotes and information that came from real articles. I hope it actually
sounds like a news article, I feel like it does, but I wouldn’t mind some
outside opinions on that.
And yes, I used my Oc Nekodra for the story,
though its not canon to her actual background, I have plans for Nekodra for a
novel I am working on, I just borrowed her for the purpose of the school assignment, Makes it easier then worrying about creating a whole new character on top of
the research. I do that often with her, for short story ideas for the
simplicity of it. On my DA account, here is Link to Nekodra's Ref Sheet a very lazily
done reference sheet. I am posting the link, because in order to read the
rather badly done format of the text on the picture would be easier to read on
DA then trying to put it here on the post. It’s your choice to look at it. I
figure if anyone is curious about a snip-it of Nekodra’s (the Oc) background,
here you go. I may post at a later date, a small quip about Nekodra and her
background with some of the pictures of her I have drawn. Also her dead husband
in this story, Viix V. Dracula is in fact Nekodra’s (the Oc) husband, His full
name is Captain Viix Vladkin Ivan Dracula and he isn’t actually dead, it was
merely for the purpose of this story.
I
hope this story sounds as good as I feel it does. I know a few spots
feel…awkward, at least to me. As far as I know there aren’t many stories that
take a more scientific approach to Vampires then a supernatural one, and to
quote Natalie Portman from Thor “Magic is just advanced technology we don’t
understand.” I don’t know if I quoted that completely correct, and that came to
mind because I watch Thor last night with my friends. I am a big fan of Magic
and Science and I just love it when I stumble across a story that takes
something like Magic and spins a plausible sounding scientific theory behind
how it works, like the sorcerers apprentice, which I think was based off a
book, right? I don’t know but when I have the spare cash I should see about
that and get it, because I enjoyed the movie, so I bet the book is awesome,
even though I think its an young adult, but eh. I enjoy the Harry Potter
series.
But
anyways, I am really proud of this short story/assignment for class, because I
actually put a lot of research behind it, and a lot of thought, purpose behind
certain things. I don’t recall all the meanings now, but several things where
jabs about things going on, jabs at possible futures with the way things are,
also an obvious one is a jab at mass mentality, and the how sometimes people on
a whole, as a mass mob, blindly follow a trend. Like I said I don’t recall what
exactly the jabs are and the specific reasons I made it, but they are there and
where put there for a reason. <.<;;
Okay,
I have probably bored you enough with my rambling, although if you are still
reading, maybe I wasn’t boring you. ^_^ Either way, enough for today, all of
you have a good night. I am going to go back to reading this Creative Writing
website I found, which has some awesome tips, and watching more Psych. Ooh and
I think a few of the Psych Fan fictions I have been reading had updates today,
if I recall from my email. Yay!
Just
a quick Side Notes:
-Follow me on Twitter, because I will tweet every time I post on my blog and I
will post a link. Nekodra's Twitter
-Have fun and toss me writing prompt, I would love the practice. I will credit
you for tossing the prompt when I post the resulting story.
-If you have never seen Psych, and you love comedies or crime shows, I highly
recommend it! You can watch the first 5 seasons on Netflix’s, and I believe you
can watch the first 4 of 7 episodes of the current season on Hulu. Psych airs
on USA
on Wednesdays.
- Please remember to comment, I want honest opinions that why I am posting my
short stories here, I want to improve, get feedback so I can better myself as
an writer.
-Also remember unless stated otherwise, these stories and drawings belong to
me, I wrote/drew them, please respect that.
~Nekodra K.D. LaCroix
