Psuedo Political Science

For years I've watched at turns fascinated and bemused by the pseudo science in the stories and films that I love so much. I remember watching the Matrix opening week-end completely enthralled and all the while knowing that I was going to have to watch the DVD 1,000 times in order to actually make sense of it. I've memorized it now, but I still don't understand it. But I know that we all feel like we can row our boats gently down the stream, but merrily, life is but a dream. I want to pull off something like that, but with humor and compassion for a place and some people who were left behind long before the deep recession we've now officially been in for over a year. They may as well be under siege by aliens in Chester, SC. I also believe that the best science fiction has a social-political world view. Plainly, I'm a Democrat so in my story, bigger guns and lower taxes ain't gonna be the solution.

The "Chester Children"

As soon as egg meets sperm to create the bundle of cells that will become a full-blown embryo in days, the cells contain all the information needed in order to develop into the various types of tissue that become our bodies organs and systems. In the "Chester Children", as they become nationally known, the thin translucent form of fetal skin never develops into the epidermis and dermis that make up the skin. All the underlying structures of their tiny bodies are visible, as if they were live anatomical models. In a few cases, the "skin" was composed of other types of tissue - bone, muscle, tooth. None of the newborns survive past a few days, infection being the primary cause of death.

Story Town, South Carolina

What happens when a town with unemployment topping 20%, an interstate legal battle over the water supply reaching the Supreme Court, drug and alcohol use spiraling out of control, and failing schools is discovered to be the long term research site of extraterrestrials? It's a mostly true story ya'll.

Hello

I am starting this blog in the interest of keeping track of my time and stirring up some new ideas for the book I started writing, well, in high school. Life writes itself. For the last several years, I've had an idea for a story about children being born with out skin. It's based on a very real impoverished town not too far from me in South Carolina. Any questions, comments, or feedback welcome.