back on the pony...

[lagilman]

New York City was used to blackouts. People had their emergency plans in place, their flashlights and their walking shoes, their alternate routes home. It was just another pain in the ass in the day of a major city. No big deal.

But the darkness kept spreading, from the small island of Manhattan outward into the outer boroughs and the suburbs of New Jersey and Philadelphia, up through Connecticut all the way up to Boston, and down the coast toward Delaware, fingers reaching into D.C. Pockets of power clicked on via emergency generators, and those who had lived through the great outages of decades before sighed and reached for candles and flashlights before the sun disappeared entirely from the sky and true darkness fell.

But some residents were inconvenienced more than others.

*? ?*

A mass query rose from the city, blended with curses as Talent felt their normal sources of easy current disappear. The overriding question was a familiar one: ‘who did it this time?’ Not every blackout or brownout was caused by a Talent overreaching or drawing down too much current at once, but it happened often enough to be a valid question.

As usual, nobody owned up.

Comments

[debg.livejournal.com]

And of course, my first thought was, ok, who's screwing with the Talent...?

[lagilman]

:-D

[debg.livejournal.com]

blink

OK, so, what? I wasn't supposed to assume someone was systematically robbing them of their power source, to do something drastic...?

I'm a mystery writer, yo. Of COURSE that was my first thought. Malice aforethought!

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

yum. Wanna read more!!

Completely off-topic meerkat news

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

I didn't see a good place to put this but thought you might be interested in seeing some baby meerkats! (http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2007/03/meanwhile_over_.html)

(If I'm wrong, I apologize!)

Re: Completely off-topic meerkat news

[lagilman]

meerkat links always welcome here. ;-)

They look like they're auditioning for "PotC, the desert edition, with Extra Eyeliner"

Re: Completely off-topic meerkat news

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Those almost as cute a kittens!

Re: Completely off-topic meerkat news

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

"But why are all the larvae gone?!!?!"

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Nice! Thanks for sharing and I can't wait to read the whole thing.

[music-lover3.livejournal.com]

thanks for sharing! can't wait to read the rest of it when it comes out! *jumps and claps hands gleefully, asks for more*