AstroGirl ([info]astrogirl2) wrote in [info]b7friday,
2005-07-17 14:37:00
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No, Despite the Title, It's Not a Crossover.

'Bout time I actually did one of these challenges. This one's 100 words. Set PGP or AU, or something.

I Am Not a Number

Blake stands before a cabinet in what used to be the Federation Vault of Records.

Inside the cabinet... is him. His life, his memories, neatly stored away on tape and disc and helpful index cards. Everything they took from his mind, safely held for future use. An apt metaphor, he thinks, for what the Federation did to everyone. Human beings reduced to numbers, stuck in drawers, left to collect dust on their neatly-filed souls.

He spills the records across the floor in a jumbled heap. All of them, not just his. Then he burns them. Now they can be free.

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[info]blakefancier

July 17 2005, 20:41:16 UTC 6 years ago

Yay!! This drabble made me very happy.

[info]astrogirl2

July 17 2005, 20:47:03 UTC 6 years ago

Glad to hear it! I don't know that I'm super happy with the wording of it, myself, but I'm just glad to have finally written something for this place, after blowing it off for far too long. :)

[info]kerravonsen

July 17 2005, 20:43:12 UTC 6 years ago

Indeed.

[info]pinkdormouse

July 17 2005, 21:16:50 UTC 6 years ago

Very interesting...

Gina

[info]astrogirl2

July 17 2005, 21:19:15 UTC 6 years ago

You know, I never quite know what to make of a response like that... ;)

[info]pinkdormouse

July 17 2005, 21:24:10 UTC 6 years ago

Sorry, I'd been drinking wine, and am now in shock about how just many DVDs are being posted to me in payment for a job I'm doing for a certain person.

I liked your drabble though.

Gina

[info]astrogirl2

July 17 2005, 21:32:31 UTC 6 years ago

LOL! Wine and DVDs sound pretty good to me. :)

[info]kerravongenius

July 17 2005, 21:24:22 UTC 6 years ago

I can picture it! This is great!

[info]vilakins

July 18 2005, 00:47:02 UTC 6 years ago

Ooh! They won! You HEXer, you! ;-)

[info]astrogirl2

July 18 2005, 05:37:14 UTC 6 years ago

Eh, I'm sure things fell apart horribly right after that. Possibly due to the fact that the complete lack of any sort of record-keeping plunged post-Federation society into chaos. ;)

[info]kerr_avon

July 18 2005, 05:40:31 UTC 6 years ago

The maintenance records on the sewage system... now, destroying that was an error....

[info]kerr_avon

July 18 2005, 05:15:15 UTC 6 years ago

I like the story... but I wonder if some of those people would have liked the chance to choose whether or not to know what had been taken from them.

It was *very* Blake, though. :^)

[info]astrogirl2

July 18 2005, 05:37:53 UTC 6 years ago

Heh. Yeah, you go tell Blake that. I'll wait here. :)

[info]kerr_avon

July 18 2005, 05:39:21 UTC 6 years ago

*grins* I think I will. I quite enjoy a good argument with him.

[info]toft_froggy

July 18 2005, 08:39:58 UTC 6 years ago

Ooh, very good. I can also see Blake doing something like that and not thinking about the consequences...
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