Retro Futurism: Dahlia’s Run part 1
Added 2021-06-09 13:49:02 +0000 UTCFinally, time for the next multi-chapter story!
It’s been quite a long time since I finished up the last one, but I’ve honestly had such a fun time writing oneshot stories that it feels like went by so quick. I do think that after this story concludes, I’ll very likely do more oneshots for a while, at least until I sort out the details for one of my multi-chapter ideas.
Now, since Retro Futurism is a setting I’ve written before, I wanted to do something new with it. The first two stories in the setting touched on the idea of women being Designated as some kinky role, such as a bimbo or a housewife. This one in particular is about a young woman who explicitly does not want to experience that, and has a bone to pick with the entire process. I tried to make Dahlia interesting, and unique as a protagonist, and I hope that comes through a bit towards the end of this chapter.
Now, I know this chapter is largely narration without much in the way of dialogue or moment by moment behavior, up until the end, but that’s just for this chapter. I had a lot of setup I needed to do and a lot of exposition to get out of the way, so that chapter 2 could get right to Dahlia’s escape from stepford society.
I hope you enjoy!
Comments
Thank you! I have a pretty firm idea on how this one will end, but much of the journey there is just happening as I go, but it’s definitely more clearly dystopian than previous stories due in part to Dahlia’s more critical perspective.
Smokey
2021-06-10 11:14:27 +0000 UTCReally interesting! Centering a rebel against Stepford in the wake of your recent stories about diehard fanatics and enthusiastic converts makes for a refreshing change of piece. I enjoy them all of course, but I admire your dedication to exploring as many different kinds of Stepford story as possible! Speaking of which, I don’t usually relate to trans protagonists, but I’m really compelled by Dahlia. It totally makes sense that a trans girl would be especially awake to the flaws in Retro Futurism society. Which is turn makes me excited to see how she might ultimately end up reconciling with it..,
vasily26
2021-06-10 04:42:29 +0000 UTC
