PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart
Nouveau
Nouveau is the last city standing on Earth. Intact brick buildings line well-lit, clean – some might say sterile — streets.
Very few humans walk its streets. Those linked to the masters. Every first of the month it rains for precisely one hour. Humans wait for that hour and spend it walking, talking about what weather used to be.
Nobody talks about what is under the bricks and concrete of Nouveau. What powers the city.
A forbidden child will one day be born and grow to destroy the darkness that lives under it. She will shatter their prison’s crackle-glassed dome.
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Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the host of Friday Fictioneers.
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Nouveau looks and reads like a place of interest, Lisa!
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Thanks much, Bruce. It’s a compilation of a million dystopian stories I’ve read, seen, heard about.
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I just thought of something else. Maybe it is like The Matrix, an AI generated reality.
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Waiting for another Messiah.
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Now that you mention it… Thanks for reading, James.
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I hope it comes to pass. (K)
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I would definitely walk in the rain. I like how your story reflects the photo—albeit a very scary story indeed!
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Clare, I appreciate you noticing how closely I followed the image. It feels like they are living in a Twilight Zone world.
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Yesss! That is exactly the feel!
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Chilling story! Sounds like a dark and frightening future… other than the walking in the rain part!
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Steve, one hour a month just ain’t going to cut it. May their imprisonment end asap.
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That’s true, and yes, indeed.
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Not sure I believe the Promised One (the Once and Future King or the Messiah) will end it. Maybe just a rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem to be born. But the belief must be comforting to the inhabitants
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Well-said, Neil. Muad’ib.
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Love the ‘crackle-glassed dome’. So evocative.
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Dear Lisa,
A chilling story for sure. Well told.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, thanks much.
Shalom,
Lisa
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Well written Lisa,🙌 I think we are heading for the Twilight World…or we ae already here 🤔
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I hear you, Ange, thank you.
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A female heroine! love this!
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V, thanks <3
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any day now, she will emerge. hope springs eternal.
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Maybe she will be a dragon.
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What a great setting, Lisa. You could make it into a longer story, there’s so much in it, even a prophecy.
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Gabi, thanks so much. You never know, I might do just that.
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Go for it! :D
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Hopefully she’ll be a saviour not a devastator. An intriguing tale, Lisa.
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I am not sure that the future looks something I may want to miss.
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I hear you, James.
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Ooh brilliant, Li! Bit scary too…
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Chris, thanks so much.
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Ooooo fascinating
I want to know more. Great world building
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Thank you, Laurie :)
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As long as I’m not around for any of it. Great take, Lisa.
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I understand, Nancy. Thanks much.
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Welcome, Lisa.
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Chilling and hopeful!
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Thank you, TOL.
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Ooh love the imagery, Li!
❤️
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Cindy, glad you like it <3
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