Ryan Bourgart
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Stranger
Unknown and barren is this land. Who I am and how I got here is a fuzzy void in my mind. More intense than the hunger in my stomach is the yearning pull to know. Behind me is the soothing rhythmic lapping and foaming of the waves reaching up the shore. The grasses in front of me bow gracefully to the wind, bending and touching each other as if their neighbor was whispering intently the secret I am searching for. I can't see over the hill of grasses, so I quickly turn to look behind, return to the grasses pleading, and look to the left and the right. Between the teasing obscurity of the grasses, the peacefulness of the waves, and the endless unbroken stretching of the horizon in the other two directions, the confusion is immense.
By Ryan Bourgart4 years ago in Fiction
Gate Guardian Synopsis
Aidan awakens on his 16th birthday after a vivid and disconcerting recurring dream, an omen of the day to come. The dream gets more detailed throughout the story as Aidan develops. After scrambling in the dark to prepare for the day, he sees in his peripheral vision the three caretakers of the orphanage where he lives. Two of them look zoned out, but are actually using “the device”, an implant that allows people to access the internet through their minds. What is stranger to Aidan is that the third caretaker, the leader of the three, Madison (or is it Mallory?) is on a laptop. She sits rigid at attention, so Aidan ducks out as quickly as he can.
By Ryan Bourgart5 years ago in Futurism
