{"id":10686,"date":"2015-08-03T09:47:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10686"},"modified":"2015-08-03T09:47:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T14:47:34","slug":"rissa-a-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10686","title":{"rendered":"Rissa-A Short Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title-header\">Rissa-A Short Story<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p>Prompted by John Michael Greer\u2019s latest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca\/2015\/03\/planet-of-space-bats.html\" target=\"_blank\">short story contest and\u00a0invitation<\/a>\u00a0to \u201c\u2026<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Fling yourself into the far future, far enough that today\u2019s crises are matters for the history books, or tales out of ancient myth, or forgotten as completely as the crises and achievements of the Neanderthal people are today, and tell a story about human beings (or, potentially, post-human beings) confronting the challenges of their own time in their own way.\u201d\u2026I offer the following short story based on a chapter from a fledgling \u2018book\u2019 I began writing years ago when I was in my third year of teaching (1993)\u00a0and\u00a0demonstrating for my grade eight students how one would write \u2018science fiction\u2019\u2013NOTE: I still have a copy of that compendium of the students\u2019 short stories that resulted sitting on the\u00a0bookshelf behind me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope\u00a0my offering has\u00a0met the criteria set by JMG:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stories should be between 2500 and 7500 words in length;<\/li>\n<li>They should be entirely the work of their author or authors, and should not borrow characters or setting from someone else\u2019s work;<\/li>\n<li>They should be in English, with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation;<\/li>\n<li>They should be stories\u2014narratives with a plot and characters\u2014and not simply a guided tour of some corner of the future as the author imagines it;<\/li>\n<li>They should be set in our future, not in an alternate history or on some other planet;<\/li>\n<li>They should be works of realistic fiction or science fiction, not magical or supernatural fantasy\u2014that is, the setting and story should follow the laws of nature as those are presently understood;<\/li>\n<li>They should take place in settings subject to thermodynamic, ecological, and economic limits to growth; and as before,<\/li>\n<li>They must not rely on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/invasion-of-space-bats\">\u201calien space bats\u201d<\/a>\u2014that is,\u00a0<em>dei ex machina\u00a0<\/em>inserted to allow humanity to dodge the consequences of the limits to growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those wishing to offer feedback, please feel free to submit a comment on this short story where a young girl searches for meaning in her life but encounters something completely unexpected, altering her view of the world and her possible future in it:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?page_id=10641\" target=\"_blank\">Rissa<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rissa-A Short Story Prompted by John Michael Greer\u2019s latest\u00a0short story contest and\u00a0invitation\u00a0to \u201c\u2026Fling yourself into the far future, far enough that today\u2019s crises are matters for the history books, or tales out of ancient myth, or forgotten as completely as the crises and achievements of the Neanderthal people are today, and tell a story about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1758,1101,7811,7810,5833,5564],"class_list":["post-10686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-olduvai","tag-rissa","tag-short-story","tag-steve-bull","tag-the-archdruid-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10687,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions\/10687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}