Thank you, Janet Webb, for letting us spin our yarns from your picture!
(98 wc. I might use this scene for a beginning base to something more, later. I like it. Thank you, Rochelle for such an inspirational picture this week, and for your spine tingling story, too!)
The cart is a hindrance; bogging down, water-logged. Running for the shuttle, praying I can get things inside before it flooded, too. This made the third month of rain, now. A constant, drenching, mood-altering rain. Command Central promised that they’d fix the weather grid as soon as possible, but I don’t believe them. It all seems like a grand scheme to drive us all to evacuated. It was no secret that they wanted to “repurpose” the dome. Slamming the hatch shut behind me, and leaving the cart in the lot, I headed for the airlock. I need sunlight, after all.
Braided Stars 
Nice. Well-written.
-HA
There is a lot in there – to take us somewhere from. There may be a story there, I agree. I found mysterious ingredients for sure – the rain, the needing light, command centre…yes…build it…
Dear Buffalostarmedicine,
Somewhere out there a weatherman is laughing. Loved your take on the prompt.
Aloha,
Doug
great story. very imaginative!
Great Sci-fi. We all need a little sun or we would wrinkle up with moisture
Obviously set in Scotland!
AnElephant loves it.
I was thinking about Kentucky, USA… we call it little Ireland because of all the rain.
Fly away!
The beginnings of such an interesting sci-fi tale. Keep it going, please!
Thanks. This is a spin-off. I wrote a 38 book series that revolved around life in dome-cities, and annual epidemics of ‘Rain Fever’ that drove people instantly mad before slowly killing them. This weeks prompt just reminded me of it.
Dear Buffy,
Quite the sci-fi tale. Disturbingly well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Rochelle, you are ever the inspiration. 🙂
A neat sci-fi take on the prompt, and that’s a chilling idea about Command Central dictating life conditions for those under the dome. I like that this character escapes — there’s a much larger story in here, about what happened before and after.
I agree, a much larger story indeed. A social commentary in the making, eh? Anyway was just brainstorming this.
A great bit of sci-fi realism; I love this sort of story. And I agree with Zooky – definitely could be made into something bigger.
(By the way I think you might need ‘is’ after ‘it’ in: ‘before it flooded, too’ to make it present tense like the rest of it.)
Claire
yeah, I noticed the error some time later when I was reading it to my hubs.
Run as fast as you can or they’re gonna lock you out and give you a mop and bucket and tell you to get the place cleaned up.
LOL! I like it! Here, can you hold this mop for a moment?
If only there was a weather grid! I’d order up a lot more sun, here in the rainy state. Very nicely done.
We joke that here in Northern Kentucky, we are a little Ireland because we swing from rain to drought conditions all the time.
Oh, and there are a lot of potatoes and potato dishes, too. Oh, and boiled cabbage…ouuuu!
A great seed — lot of mysteries still to unfold. weill told
I love sci-fi. Yes, lengthen it…
Scott
Mine: http://kindredspirit23.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/ff-friday-fictioneers-100-words-photo-prompt-10182013-rated-pg13/
As always, your pieces are good. Not always the genre I get into, but well written. Have a great week!
Thank you!
Like others, I am curious about the bigger picture you could paint from this. I’d like to know about this dome. 🙂
In truth, I wrote a 38 book series that revolved around the population being forced to build city domes and to live within them for their own health and protection. When this prompt came up, it reminded me of that series… and the “rain fever” that plague the people outside the domes.
38 BOOK SERIES! 38? Wowee! Good luck with your ‘Salon des Refusés’. (See the comment I left on your Nano blog post).
🙂 Thank you, and I enjoyed your comments.