Free to a good home

[osprey_archer]

Free to a good home: a couple of story ideas, inspired by photos I took this weekend. (I have the odd feeling that life sped up this weekend. I have a stack of entries inspired by things that happened during it.)





It is a bracelet! A bracelet dangling keys! What is it for? Does the chatelaine wear it, to keep her keys safe? Was it a gift to a little girl - a bequest from a dying grandmother, perhaps - and she has to figure out what the keys open?

And what do they open? Doors to other worlds, I would think; or drawers of rare and precious things.







A homeless robot family! Wandering America, searching for jobs: somehow I see this as a Depression-era period piece. Who made them, and why? How to people feel about them? A thought for a plot: Ma and Pa Robot need to find a piece to repair Junior.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

These are **wonderful** photos. Can I reblog the hobo family on Tumblr (linking back here)?

And the story ideas are excellent--**you** should write them up, when you have time.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Yes, feel free to reblog it!

And I went ahead and wrote The Robot Story (http://osprey-archer.livejournal.com/283569.html), because who am I to argue when inspiration strikes.

(I messed up the link to the story the first time, so I deleted the comment & redid it.)

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I used to have a bracelet like that when I was, oh, thirteen or fourteen.

And I love the robot family. Now I want to read The Flywheels of Wrath. (They say there's oil in California! And electricity for any bot who's willing to put in a day of honest labor!)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I think the robots are going to an industrial center, where there's spilled oil in the streets and piles of scrap metal rusting uselessly. Why leave it there to go to waste, after all!