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A Hundred More
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It’s 100 years in the future. The environment has collapsed, leaving vast areas of jungle covering the Earth. Humans are living in underground areas to escape the extreme heat and radiation. A group of scientists is working on manipulating the human genome to incorporate the resistance that has evolved in many species of lizards. Sam is the first of his kind: a giant chameleon with human genetic material. He’s not exactly what the experiments were supposed to create, but he’s the only thing they have. Genetically modified corn is growing in the wasted environment, but it is being attacked by locust-like insects. When Sam is given the chance to help control the insects, he faces a choice. Will Sam help find the solution to the food crisis facing the human race?
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Nice contained little story. It’s well written, and the characterisation of Sam is very good considering he is mute. The humans are fairly archetypal but not lacking in flesh. There is little urgency or peril, but that doesn’t hurt the story at all. You do a good job in describing the surroundings while keeping it relatively simple and easy to follow. I liked it.
Thank you!
I enjoyed this. It had a good amount of dramatic tension. At the end, I kept waiting for bad things to happen, but I liked the way it ended :)
Glad you liked it. It was a bit out of my comfort zone, but a stretch now and then is good.
Very well constructed and written. I might have wanted the dystopia to be a bit more dystopic, but other than that, solid thumbs up!
Thank you!
I like this, but it's a little clunky in the execution. Sear the words of White and Strunk's THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE into your heart, especially the line, "Omit needless words."
Keep writing!
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That one had me laughing! There's just something about concealed/unexpected power in a story that puts me in a good mood. It's weird, but I can't help finding myself wanting to laugh anytime I see it.
Overall, the story read through pretty cleanly. The only thing that bothered me was the formatting; I had to increase the font size to be comfortable reading. More than likely that's me need to get my eye's checked again and not something wrong with the story.
Great Work!
Oh I liked this story! It was sweet and the dystopia was dystopic but not so overwhelmingly depressing that you want to kill yourself at the end. Seriously, this clever little story just made my day. I have no real critique of it,its well written, the dialogue is beautiful and the story is fun, clever and well written. One thing would be the formatting, some open space between paragraphs might make this slightly easier on the eyes.
Big thumbs up! Good job!!!
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
New version up today. Nothing major- just some minor edits, and formatting tweaks. No real change to the story.
I liked this story. Great ending. Left me smiling. I would suggest cleaning up some of the action where it's interspersed with dialogue. In just a couple spots, I got confused as to who was talking or doing what. Maybe that's just me, but I felt I had to offer some kind of critique. Good story!
Thank you. It gets hard to keep straight who's doing/saying what sometimes. I will look it over with that in mind.
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