Get Over It
Very Short Story (A contest entry)36 total reviews
Comment from sgalletti
What a fun contest! I love the Eagles, love the fact the contest is not blind, and am enjoying the different interpretations of the titles. Interesting take on "Get Over It." I trust you are trying to get over the way immigrants are treated here in the US? We do tend to forget this is the melting pot of the world and it is the migrants who made this country what it is. My best good luck wishes in the contest. Sue
reply by the author on 23-Aug-2014
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What a fun contest! I love the Eagles, love the fact the contest is not blind, and am enjoying the different interpretations of the titles. Interesting take on "Get Over It." I trust you are trying to get over the way immigrants are treated here in the US? We do tend to forget this is the melting pot of the world and it is the migrants who made this country what it is. My best good luck wishes in the contest. Sue
Comment Written 23-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 23-Aug-2014
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Thanks, Sue. I'm not sure how migrants are treated in the US, but there is a growing emphasis on conformity here in Australia, despite our rich multicultural mix. People seem always to be afraid of anyone who is different from the commonly accepted norm.
Comment from ravenblack
Sadly, I think in many ways we are already marching into that future. The melting pot seems to have melted away and is more a vat of bleach. Can you imagine how boring it would be if we all shared the same culture? White noise room/ the door marked migraine- great satire/social commentary.
reply by the author on 23-Aug-2014
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Sadly, I think in many ways we are already marching into that future. The melting pot seems to have melted away and is more a vat of bleach. Can you imagine how boring it would be if we all shared the same culture? White noise room/ the door marked migraine- great satire/social commentary.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 23-Aug-2014
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Thanks for your review, Ravenblack. These darned newcomers are a bit of a headache - still, we'd better try to assimilate them!
Comment from mikemagine
"Live and let live." Is that a hackneyed saying? As in overused? Can it really be overused? Can STOP, on the signs in traffic be overused? Okay, not a tight comparison, but I think you get what I'm saying...
One day ACCEPTANCE might be a dirty word...
Your story wittily, cleverly shows narrow-mindedness.
Please keep writing!
Mike
reply by the author on 23-Aug-2014
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"Live and let live." Is that a hackneyed saying? As in overused? Can it really be overused? Can STOP, on the signs in traffic be overused? Okay, not a tight comparison, but I think you get what I'm saying...
One day ACCEPTANCE might be a dirty word...
Your story wittily, cleverly shows narrow-mindedness.
Please keep writing!
Mike
Comment Written 22-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 23-Aug-2014
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I'm afraid you are right, conformity seems to be king these days.
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Yes. So many want no one to get outside the prov. box!
Comment from Muffins
A great creative slant on a future I hope we never step into. Fear is a sickness that will never disappear from the human mind but we should at least learn not to rush to judgment. Wanting everyone to be the same is boring and dangerous.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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A great creative slant on a future I hope we never step into. Fear is a sickness that will never disappear from the human mind but we should at least learn not to rush to judgment. Wanting everyone to be the same is boring and dangerous.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Many thanks for your generous review and stars, Muffins
Comment from Debra White
Hi Tony :) Thank you for entering the contest. I enjoyed your entry.
Well written and intelligent.
I believe that your futuristic tale may actually be how things turn out... we have so many migrants in England - some legal, some not... I hear almost as many foreign voices as English ones when I go out. I wouldn't mind, but there just isn't enough work to go round and the economic situation is dire. The migrants will work for a low wage so they are the preferred employees... I truly worry about my kids' future - I see us needing to stay in a 4 bedroom house for a lot of years... no retirement bungalow for us!
Good luck in the voting booth :) Kindest regards as always, Debra
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Hi Tony :) Thank you for entering the contest. I enjoyed your entry.
Well written and intelligent.
I believe that your futuristic tale may actually be how things turn out... we have so many migrants in England - some legal, some not... I hear almost as many foreign voices as English ones when I go out. I wouldn't mind, but there just isn't enough work to go round and the economic situation is dire. The migrants will work for a low wage so they are the preferred employees... I truly worry about my kids' future - I see us needing to stay in a 4 bedroom house for a lot of years... no retirement bungalow for us!
Good luck in the voting booth :) Kindest regards as always, Debra
Comment Written 22-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Thanks, Debra. It is a real problem, and as you say, perhaps not cast quite so far into the future as I have suggested!
Comment from mfowler
Great to read an original take on these titles. I think this could be your first 'satire science fiction' since I've been on FS. I see that you're using this to highlight the way in which we process 'criminals' who want to come here. (Does this not strike strange parallels to the Anglo-white bias of the migration test that migrants used to take in the halcyon days of the White Australia Policy?)
Back to the story. You have invented a very unusual system of entry to the country, but one that scarily parallels what you satirise. I like the the choices of titles and terms that you've made, but the 'Chief Migraine Officer' made me smile most. There's parallels too, to China during Mao's days, and North Korea today, Russia with the Stalag system ans so on. Hence, the notion of being picked up at the airport and given a questionnaire is very frightening, but strangely possible. Maybe, a NAPLAN test could serve a similar purpose. I enjoyed your story and wish you well in the vote. I'm stopping before I write as musch as you.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Great to read an original take on these titles. I think this could be your first 'satire science fiction' since I've been on FS. I see that you're using this to highlight the way in which we process 'criminals' who want to come here. (Does this not strike strange parallels to the Anglo-white bias of the migration test that migrants used to take in the halcyon days of the White Australia Policy?)
Back to the story. You have invented a very unusual system of entry to the country, but one that scarily parallels what you satirise. I like the the choices of titles and terms that you've made, but the 'Chief Migraine Officer' made me smile most. There's parallels too, to China during Mao's days, and North Korea today, Russia with the Stalag system ans so on. Hence, the notion of being picked up at the airport and given a questionnaire is very frightening, but strangely possible. Maybe, a NAPLAN test could serve a similar purpose. I enjoyed your story and wish you well in the vote. I'm stopping before I write as musch as you.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Thanks, Mark. What a great review! ...not to mention the Budgie Smugglers question!
Comment from w.j.debi
This not a future I hope to see, but it is a possibility, and that is what makes it thought provoking. Will she really accept whatever they decide to do to her as best, without question? Is there no choice? You certainly give a new meaning to "customs officers".
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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This not a future I hope to see, but it is a possibility, and that is what makes it thought provoking. Will she really accept whatever they decide to do to her as best, without question? Is there no choice? You certainly give a new meaning to "customs officers".
Comment Written 22-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Thanks, WJ. I hope that my story remains fiction!
Comment from pattipac
WOW,You put a creative slant on how some people view anyone of a different race,color,creed, and/or nationality different from their own. This deserves a six, but alas I am out of them.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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WOW,You put a creative slant on how some people view anyone of a different race,color,creed, and/or nationality different from their own. This deserves a six, but alas I am out of them.
Comment Written 21-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Thanks so much for this encouraging review and virtual six, pattipac.
Comment from Just Pete
You chose a brilliant topic for this one. It's so appropriate in our present day society. One has to question the wisdom and ideology of those who make the decisions. Humanity is a fickle beast. Best of luck - Pete
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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You chose a brilliant topic for this one. It's so appropriate in our present day society. One has to question the wisdom and ideology of those who make the decisions. Humanity is a fickle beast. Best of luck - Pete
Comment Written 21-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Thanks, Pete. I hope that my story remains fiction!
Comment from mjac777
Very well written story for this contest.
I think the genesis of all this may well be 2012. lol
It's called political correctness gone wild.
Good luck in the contest.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Very well written story for this contest.
I think the genesis of all this may well be 2012. lol
It's called political correctness gone wild.
Good luck in the contest.
Comment Written 21-Aug-2014
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2014
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Thanks, mjac. I hope that my story remains fiction though one does see signs of it not being so!