Riots. Financial shake-ups. The first hint that perhaps the American financial juggernaut may really be a house of cards inside a Chinese jump rope. The underclass releasing decades of pent-up rage. The Guns of Brixton. Electric Avenue. Workers on strike.
Unrest is on people’s minds. It can mean many things. Fear that things are unraveling. The dead that won’t stay dead are described as spirits in a state of UNREST. It’s said that there are only two emotions, the primary colors of the brain’s chemical cocktail that drive everything we do. Love and Fear. Unrest is about fear. What do you fear about the current news? Tackle the subject of UNREST- either from today’s headlines, yesterday’s, the future’s, or whatever comes to mind- and run with it. You have up to 1500 words. Make us afraid. Tickle our amygdala, make us lock our doors and consider buying that package of two year’s of freeze-dried food and ammo from Wal-Mart and build a bunker. Or tell us we’re a bunch of scared little monkeys without a shred of faith in humanity. And write about…
Prompt: A story about unrest.
Genre: Open
Word Count: 1500 words (or fewer).
Deadline: Thursday August 18th 2011 8:30 PM EST
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