Topic 1 Season 10

[anastoff]

Mrs. Jones' alarm clock rings at 6am. Not that she really needs it. She just figures if she doesn't keep some degree of a routine, she will lose her mind completely. She doesn't have anywhere to go now that she has been laid off from her job as a middle school teacher for six months. School budgets, which have been cut every year for generations,

Comments

[murielle]

Interesting view of the future. Have teachers in the family. I find them to be quite self-motivated, but maybe that's just the teachers in my family.

[my_name_is_jenn]

Very nice take on the prompt. I really liked this. :)

[mamas_minion]

Great take on the topic. I really enjoyed the speculative fiction of the dangers of an automated world. Loved the story.

[halfshellvenus]

It really feels as if we are halfway to this future, and it isn't a very appealing one, is it? Everything automated and depersonalized, and people mostly only interacting remotely, via screens. We're draining the life out of ourselves, and we don't even realize it.

[penpusher]

painful and challenging, but ultimately life-affirming.