Today’s story was suppose to be a Twitter story, but 140 character’s just wouldn’t cut it, so I made it a two tweet story. 
The ball drop from sleeping fingers and rolled a few feet away. With a pop the ball transformed into it’s true robotic form. Now free the robot can finally accomplish it’s mission. With a tiny whir, the robot zipped into the nearest hay stack in search for that elusive needle!
Today I wrote a little Sci-Fi story about a space traveler, from another galaxy, who stumbles across a seemingly deserted moon base in hopes to find some signs of friendly beings. He only to find the reason no one lives there any more. The story prompt came from Rory’s Story Cubes that were rolled for May 9th’s Story a Day prompt. Seeing it is almost 12am I wanted to get it on record that I finished, but I’ll post the excerpt later once I can do some editing; at 1,650 words, I don’t have time before the clock ticks 12 to clean it up. I’ll update this post with it once I’ve cleaned it up.
[UPDATE: I finally got a chance to clean up the story and all 1,758 words can be found after the jump. Read on »
Title: The Future is Hybrids
Submitter: Adam Berry
Genre: Sci-Fi
Time Period: 2620 AD
Conflict: Hybrids rule the world and enslave normal humans
Protagonist Race/Species: Cyborg
Antagonist Race/Species: Hybrid human animals
Summary:
In 2045 scientist discovered how to blend the DNA of animals with humans. At first it was only used to give humans a trait that would be needed to keep someone alive; like a lizard’s ability to regrow limbs for someone who lost theirs in an accident. Much like stem cells were controversial around 2000 AD, even though it was beneficial, this blending of animal and human DNA was also very much controversial. Something about not being natural or the way God intended us to be. As time marched on the rising generation were less interested in what “God” wanted and more interested in maximizing this technology. Eventually the blending of DNA became everyday behavior, for the rich. People would often cosmetically add a characteristic of their favorite animal into their DNA, like cat whiskers.
Over a few generations more and more animal DNA was introduced into the human gene pool. Eventually it seemed that these people were more animal than human. Since the merging of the DNA was expensive only the rich, and ultimately powerful, people did it; meaning those who rule were hybrids and those who were ruled were normal full blood humans. This physical divide between the rich and the poor caused another great Civil War. Since the rich were engineered to have more capable and powerful bodies than the poor, this war was bloody and very one sided. That is till the poor found an advantage, cybernetics.
Blending DNA may be expensive, but getting a robotic implant was not. As the war waged on more an more soldiers, and people in general among the poor, started augmenting their abilities with robotics. This change of affairs balanced the war efforts. Now a battle raged to see which type of hybrid would survey; genetic mutation or robotic augmentation.
In the Writing Excuses podcast released December 13th 2010, the writing prompt was not really a writing prompt. The hosts of the podcast talked about advice they would give themselves if they could go back in time. Since it was more of a “what we’ve learned” than a real podcast on time travel, their writing prompt was, “Go forward in time and get next week’s writing prompt.” I thought that was silly, but liked the idea of Time Travel, so instead I decided to outline all of the methods of time travel I can think of. I’ve thought about this for many years, not just today, and I’ve come up with 6 methods of time travel: Stream, Dimensional, Forged Paths, Healing, View Only, and OmniPresent. Below I list what they are, give a quick summary of how it works, some pros and cons, and a possible story using that method. Read on »
