Worlds of WillyDJ

  Killed him! It took a while, but I finally killed that damn bureaucrat. He's been awaiting death since March. Of course, a little thing happened then and my mind was on other matters. Still, he was hard to kill and that was a minor character! Eventually, I'm going to have to kill off a major character. Hopefully, it doesn't take as long.  What made killing him off had was that this is where Glynn, our main point of view protagonist actually commits to the revolution. Oh, sure humanity's overlords are callous colonialist types and representatives of The Man. Sure, the entire system is rotten and rigged. Sure, everything at the moment has The Third Servile War as an inspirational springboard and the hero has 'to get on with it' but the hero has to choose to do so.  Up till now, Glynn has just been reacting, trying to make the best of a situation spiralling out of his control. This is where he steps past that and has to make the break from the known and proceed i...

Argh! Argh! Argh!  What a dreadful day. Just horrifically dreadful in the way toiling as a cog in the machine can be. On the plus side, it made writing this scene far easier. Maybe as an exorcism of today's demons, inspiration to never fly a desk again or maybe I too really wanted to do this. The excerpt is from my space opera story. The working title is Once and Future Queen. Our protagonist has been called to task by an officious bureaucrat. Spoilers, don't get attached to the bureaucrat... ----- “Come in, come in,” said Ghalem as Glynn entered the Administrator’s office. He noticed the large chair in the centre of the room. It looked quite comfortable. “Please sit.” continued Ghalem and waved towards the chair. Obediently Glynn sat. That was what a loyal subject of the Ascendancy would do and what were humans if not loyal subjects? “A rather interesting request here Senco. Rather interesting indeed,” said Ghalem. Glynn tensed. What had this official noticed? What had given t...