Walking the Walk
You can walk down many streets in any town and see redundant sports facilities. For there is only one game played now. A game of life and death for four players. If you come first you gain another full year of life, come second and you get six months, come third and you get three months. But come fourth and you are given the red seed of death. The worlds leaders say that it is the fairest way of controlling the population. But what I want to know is why the leaders and their political advisors are exempted from the games.
Footnotes: Some stories just seem determined to be run on or be told. This week’s offering stands alone, but can also be seen as a follow up to my last story for Friday Fictioneers, called ‘Freyja will deliver the torch’.
I am unfortunately still unable to use the ‘like’ button, but I do read all stories posted on FF.
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This sounds to me like Hunger Games… very dystopian…
Thank you Bjorn, it was interesting to speculate on how competitive sports will develope
I think this describes war in general.
Thank you James, At first I did not see it in that light, but by the end I agreed with you.
Leaders and their political advisers exempt from the bad stuff? Who’d have thought it!
Thank you jilly, who would have thought it.
The over-population of the planet is as big a threat to humanity as anything else. Here is one solution at least…
It was interesting to speculate on how the future might deal with population growth. But this is not a solution that I approve of.
Like Bjorn, I immediately thought of the Hunger Games. Well done.
Thank you Sascha
Yep, the leaders and political advisors never go hungry. But then again when their heads roll we all cheer.
Thank you James
Dystopia, here we come.
Hopefully it will never come to pass.
Dear Michael,
I thought Hunger Games, too. However, that last line is a sucker punch to the gut. Politicians do seem to be exempt from…everything. What’s up with that? Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle. I am glad that I never took up the trade of a politician.
Like the American Congress exempting itself from Obamacare. The people in charge get to play by their own rules, I guess.
They certainly seem to have their own agendas
You give us an interesting thought, that people might lose interest in other sports when there was a compulsory game with life or death stakes.
Thank you so much Penny,
Reminds me of The Hunger Games.
Yes it is true that what applies to all doesn’t really apply to all!
Thank you so much, I am glad that I did not become a politician
I’m reminded of Hunger Games… Gladiator… I think, we need to be Terminators.
There’s the good question by the narrator towards the end.
Thank you Norma, the question is one that I ask myself,
World leaders can play some very wicked games.
Thank you Dan, wicked indeed, I often wonder what type of politician I would have been.
A very good one, I’m sure.
Thank you Dan
This does stand alone, but I’m not keen on your game stories. It’s just typical that the instigators of the games are exempt from participation. Very well told and unsettling.
Thank you Sarah. Did not mean to unsettle you, I do wonder what sort of politician I would have become.
I had to be #4. Interesting way you traveld with this one, Michael.
Isadora
Sorry Isadora.