Kent Wayne

Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

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HOLY HELL!  Being chased by a buncha emo-poets that are super-pissed at me for being an optimist.  Normally I’d be able to outrun and outfight them (or simply go into the sunlight, which would wreak havoc on their mom’s-basement-pasty skin and cause them to scream like tortured gargoyles) but nothing pisses off an emo-poet like someone who’s optimistic and actively pursues their passions.  Their hate has given them the endurance of a methed-up Dean Karnazes.  I look back and see rabid, mascara-lined eyes closing on me.  Open my eReader.  Magic flash.  My hand is filled with a glowing, scintillant sphere of light—a potent mix of laughter and vitamin D.  I chuck it at my pursuers and it disappears in a giant flare.  They stop in their tracks.  Their black nails and mascara disappear, then they start sobbing and making out with each other.  Also gross.  Now I’m fleeing in disgust, but at least I’m safe!  Booyah!

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15 responses to “Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel”

  1. Sheryl Avatar
    Sheryl

    ‘Mom’s basement pasty skin.’ Awesome.

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      My ads are where I can throw around wordplay. 🙂

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  2. Woebegone but Hopeful Avatar
    Woebegone but Hopeful

    Making out with each other?
    Well you angel of mercy you. Thanks to your noble efforts they finally got ‘some’!

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      Good point! I bet the lack of getting some factored into their decision to become emo-poets, haha!

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      1. Woebegone but Hopeful Avatar
        Woebegone but Hopeful

        No doubt! 👍

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  3. autistsix Avatar
    autistsix

    Now what will they write about, actually now many may never have time to write again, until they are in their forties and he finds computers far more inter… (I better stop before you guess i’m a 45 year old woman wearing all black listening to Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco).

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      Oh they’ll find something! Being misery experts and all..haha!

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  4. nombre de la pluma Avatar
    nombre de la pluma

    hahahaha, yeah I laughed in spite of my emo-wanna-be daydreams:

    Why would you do that?
    Emos would never attack you. We
    Just want to be left alone to complain
    About our loneliness and pain
    And post pictures of our cat- see?
    I’m all out of black nail polish. Damn.
    Missed the whole thing again.

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      Sorry didn’t mean to offend! Actually I’m being hotly debated with by an emo right now under one of my musings; we both agree that reality is uncertain, but whereas I like to explore and use positivity (for the placebo effect if nothing else) he insists that I’m stupid and weak due to the anecdotes of what seem to be his fairly depressing life! But who knows if free will is real, right? We DO know that behavior is influenced by key events, so I’m trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and be nice, but damn, it’s hard when I keep being called stupid and delusional, which I may in fact be, but he may be as well, as the nature of reality is yet unproven, but hey, I’m functional and fulfilled, whereas he’s bemoaning his environment and inactive, so I’ll take what I got, you know? Anyways, much love to the Emos! No offense meant! 😉

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      1. nombre de la pluma Avatar
        nombre de la pluma

        No offense taken at all. Which means I don’t really qualify as emo, I just like their style and music.. Maybe that’s why they left me out of the attack. If I really was emo I would certainly be offended at your remarks and then I would certainly write a free-verse poem to complain about how I wasn’t informed and how it only further isolated me. Then I’d paint my nails a deeper shade of black and find some Alice Cooper eye liner. When you really don’t fit into any social circles… sigh! ~DM 😀

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      2. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
        DirtySciFiBuddha

        Hahaha! Think that free-verse would take me out quicker than Tyson!

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  5. nombre de la pluma Avatar
    nombre de la pluma

    Oh, btw, I don’t think you fit in a “stupid” or “delusional” category. But delusional, that’s something to aspire to! And regarding sitting still doing nothing and bemoaning my lack of progress, I only wish I had the leisure. Alas, for not being a kept man. I’m treading water, proverbially speaking, hoping the next tidal wave takes me to shore. Is that a shark?!!! AAAUUGGGHHHH!! (His black eyes are definitely a higher class of goth emo. I’m jealous.)

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      You got it bro! Keep treading, and maybe throw some hadouken at those sharks!

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      1. nombre de la pluma Avatar
        nombre de la pluma

        hadouken…. my son would laugh his head off that you said that.

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      2. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
        DirtySciFiBuddha

        Best noise in the world! Haha!

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