fiction: regarding abel
i spent today making edits to a futuristic short story which i first started drafting back in early 2015. back then, funnily enough, i thought that the events in the story could have taken place in 2019/2020! it was kind of fun rereading it and thinking about how instead of VR-based human/AI car co-piloting, all we got was crummy COVID in real life. anyways, i couldn’t quite decide on a new timeline for the rewrite - at first i thought maybe 2026/2027, but in the end i wound up pushing it to take place a whole decade later. i’m still not quite sure if that’s realistic. even though the world sometimes feels like it is changing at warp speed, many aspects of day-to-day life haven’t changed at all in the past decade!
this story is pretty different from most of my recent writing in that it’s a little more cerebral and less personal, i think. back in ~2014/2015 i was much more into writing fiction - and not just fiction-based-on-real-life, but more far-out, imaginary scenarios which i didn’t expect to ever experience for myself. in addition to this story i wrote about a wallaby rescuing a lost boy in an airport, a prison inmate requesting his last meal, etc. - things that exercised my imagination, if not my heart. maybe I’ll try to get back into writing this type of stuff in 2023 - we’ll see!
for now, i hope you enjoy -