Karma Police and Special Needs Vegetables

[mallorys_camera]

Dreamed that I lived in a future where time travel was possible, and I was a member of a karma police squad. My job was to travel back in time and nab people who’d committed crimes against the state—according to the laws of my time, not their own. These people were put on trial and sentenced to excruciating punishments. In my time.

Most of those crimes dealt with genetic manipulation of one sort or another. My time was very big on human supremacy, and genetic manipulation had created all sorts of bizarre human/animal chimerae.

I was after the strange, charismatic man who’d been responsible for the creation of the first of these chimera—a human/pig hybrid, oddly or, maybe, appropriately enough. Laslo. His name was Laslo.

I went through various adventures infiltrating Laslo’s inner circle and eventually ended up having a long, philosophical conversation with him á la Christ and the Devil on that peak in the desert.

“Your methodology is flawed,” Laslo told me. “Really, you should be arriving at an earlier point in time and killing your so-called criminals before they do whatever it was you’ve decided they’ve done.”

“But that would be taking human life,” I said, appalled. “And human life is sacred.”

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I had planned to do a bunch of gardening today. Fertilizing. Watering. Mulching.

At 8:30 in the morning, it was 85°, though. I lasted outside just long enough to pick another 10 pounds of tomatoes, maybe half a pound of jalapenos, and a few Brussels sprouts. (The Brussels sprouts have been my special needs vegetables this season. They are not very robust.)

Making tomato sauce is in my not-a-dream future.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Wow, I think you should put your current novel on hiatus while you write up the Karma Police story.

[mallorys_camera]

Really?

That's a serious question.

It would be really easy to write.

[asakiyume]

Well, yes and no. Yes: I think this is a fun and interesting story idea and I very much enjoyed the little précis here in the entry. But No: I don't want you to change your plans just based on my flippant comment. If you could write this really easily and it wouldn't derail the novel too badly, then maybe yes? But you know your process and how much commitment you have to the novel, etc. I guess what I really want to say is that this is a fun story idea and I look forward to reading it when and if you write it up.

[asakiyume]

Also, I really like the name Laszlo, always have.

[mallorys_camera]

Ha! Yes, I've invented characters named "Laszlo" before. It's kind of the perfect mad scientist name. :-)

Well, after I churn out my 1,000 words on the WiP today, if I have enough energy, I'll see what I can come up with in terms of what they'd call a "treatment" if this were a movie script. :-)

[robby]

You have very coherent dreams. Mine get so improbable that I will sometimes realize I'm dreaming.

[mallorys_camera]

Some of them are coherent. This one had an actual "plot"! :-)

But there's a selection process going on: I can't write the really incoherent ones down.