'Civilization' is a story set in the near future where life has just got that bit harder for people. They live in smaller apartments, work longer hours for less pay. There are more rules which they must obey or face violence from stressed out guards.
I like the fact that Marco, the main character has such a simple aim, to get to work, but it becomes nearly impossible to achieve. I also like Marco’s determination. So many things are going wrong for him but he just keeps going. So even though the world I’ve created is quite grim, it’s ultimately quite an uplifting story.
Movies involving future dystopias are very popular these days with films like ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘Divergent’ and ‘Ender’s Game’ getting a lot of success. Each one of these has a discernible bad guy. That’s fine, movies don’t get much traction without the foe to be overcome but I’ve often wondered what if life just kept getting steadily worse and worse. If the pace of the decline was slow enough, humans would adapt and perhaps not realise just how bad things had gotten. They’d be like the frog in the pot of slowly heated water not realising it's predicament until it was too late.
Civilisation can be found here:
https://issuu.com/peteraoconnor/docs/civilisation_-_peter_o_connor
If you like 'Civilisation' then I have good news. I have another story set in the same world. It features Marco's wife, Maria, who got a bit of a raw deal in 'Civilisation,' as all we saw of her was a furious woman attacking her partner.
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