Reprieve - a short story
By S.S. Wilson
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S.S. Wilson's first novel Tucker's Monster is the Winner of the 2011 Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction, presented at the 23rd annual Benjamin Franklin Awards.
S.S. Wilson
S.S. Wilson's first novel Tucker's Monster is the Winner of the 2011 Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction, presented at the 23rd annual Benjamin Franklin Awards. S.S. Wilson, screenwriter of such films as Tremors and Short Circuit has just finished his first novel Tucker's Monster after 30 years. "It really was 30 years in the making," jokes the author. After being "side-tracked" by success in screenwriting and directing, Wilson returned to a book he began over three decades ago and is now writing his second novel Fraidy Cats. S.S. WILSON has always been a storyteller with a love of fantasy. His high school science project was an animated dinosaur that demonstrated the concept of persistence of vision, the "flaw" in human optics which makes movie watching possible. As a teenager, Wilson made backyard stop-motion animation "epics" with 8mm film and later went on to study film and television at Pennsylvania State University and the USC graduate film program, where he met writing partner Brent Maddock. He and Maddock landed early jobs writing material for animation giants Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng's television specials featuring the Road Runner and Daffy Duck. Wilson also wrote a book on special effects stop-motion animation, PUPPETS AND PEOPLE. For more information www.arealdealproductions.com Print this
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Reprieve - a short story - S.S. Wilson
REPRIEVE
by S. S. Wilson
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Copyright 2011 S. S. Wilson
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The Coordinator settled into his bowl. He had deliberately arrived early, well ahead of all other Participants, in order to signal his recognition of this meeting’s gravity. Of course, in actuality that was beyond question. The meeting itself was unprecedented, having been called so far in advance of the current Quarter Circuit end.
As his ever-attentive symbionts attached his sensory leads, the Coordinator scanned the meeting chamber through a viewer. His visual organs were not well adapted to distance, but the amplifying viewer would have been necessary regardless, for the oval chamber was quite vast, stretching away from his bowl until the furthest stone walls were but vague tones of grey. It was necessarily large, having to accommodate the Participants with their widely varying sizes and wildly varying life-support systems.
The chamber was ancient almost beyond imagining, having been constructed by the Originators nearly 20 Circuits past. It was hollowed out of solid rock, beneath the surface of the moon which orbited the Study. Said moon, being lifeless, lacking an atmosphere, and being an easily traversable distance away, was an ideal observation post. It had been key in choosing the Study itself.
The Coordinator now saw two groups of Participant representatives