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21-th century fairytale (short 320 words)

  • 29-06-2008 9:49am
    #1
    Groeneg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭


    Hello,


    I wrote this a few months ago. I'm thinking to write some more and a bit longer within the same 'universe' and I was wondering if people would like that.
    So what comments i would like to have:


    1. Since I'm not a native English speaker I don't need remarks about the spelling or punctuations.:D If I'm ever going to publish :o anything I will hire a English translator. ;)

    2. What do you think about the setting of this story?
    3. Would you like to see more like more or not? And why or when?
    4. What would you change or enhance/



    Thanks in advance,
    G.

    How LittleBit found an Other World

    Once upon a time there was a gnome called LittleBit who lived inside an old PC. It was an old and shabby XT that hardly wasn't used anymore.

    One day LittleBit was cleaning the hard drive when he suddenly found an old sector which had some encrypted text on it. He read it and read it but could not decipher it.
    He ask all he's friends but they couldn't help him. It was his father that told him that if he really wanted to know what was written on this, long-forgotten, sector, he should ask Oracle. "Oracle!" LittleBit cried, "They hardly answer the phone!".
    His father meant of course The Oracle who lived near the main Power Supply down by the Socket.

    After a long journey with a lot of perils, LittleBit found The Oracle. "Let me see", The Oracle said. "Well, well, that’s a long guarded secret you have there, young master LittleBit". "It's a link to the other world"
    The Other world? LittleBit asked. "What’s that?", he added.
    "You are much too young to understand it fully now but understand this", The Oracle said. He followed with a whisper: "Beyond our PC there are many more PC's and they are all connected thru something called The Web". "The PC’s are used by the people of this other world to share information and communicate with each other.".
    But... But.... LittleBit stuttered. What does the code in the sector say? What does it mean?
    The Oracle continued: "It's a web address you just have to use it". LittleBit did not understand.

    "Look at the screen young LittleBit!" the Oracle said. And there appeared : http://www.google.com. Just visit it and find out for yourself, The Oracle said.
    And that was exactly what LittleBit did. He browsed and browsed.

    And sofar as can be told he may be browsing still and lived happily ever after.


Comments

  • #2
    Monkey61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭Monkey61


    Hi,

    I'm not really sure what to make of this. It reads like an amusing television ad for google - if such a thing existed.

    Other than that I'm not really sure what the point is. I'd love to know why you wrote this, who this is aimed at and what they might get from it because I'm quite unsure. How were you planning to develop this? What do you want people to take away from this and how is it going to enrich the world?

    Personally I would not want to read anymore, but again because it seems like the text from an ad and thus is impossible to judge as anyhing else.


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