INDOCTRINATION

Merry-Go-Rounds wrote:

Would you dare to write a story for me? I'll choose the best one and use it for my own project. Come on, get working! 

There once was an adventurer called Merry-Go-Rounds who issued a literary challenge...

From a land far away the challenge was met. An obscure writer got working on an exposition that promised better things to come and soon had settings, themes, characters, plots and sub-plots weaving a tormented tapestry of rising action that revealed contests, collusions and cameraderie to rival them all - in both fact and fiction.

Drawing on his freeze-dried, shrink-wrapped, and vacuum-packed cache of memories the writer fashioned both an unlikely protagonist whose experience of difficult times resembled his own, and, paradoxically an antagonist who embodied all that was acceptable in the name of self-actualisation.

A passionate desire for freedom from the tyranny of injustice fuelled the writer's creative urge and gave his story the principle theme around which to unfold its main plot and its various subsidiaries. It took some time to paint a picture of a corrupt world caught up in serious conflict, chaos and confusion from which no escape was possible except by submission to one person, "The Seer", as he was called, but with great patience the writer skilfully described the characters so that each in turn contributed cleverly to the noble narrative and steadily swelled the snowballing suspense.

Portraying the protagonist as misunderstood by family and friends, unbelieved by spouse, and obstructed and frustrated at every turn while striving to prevent "The Seer" from achieving complete control of the hearts and minds of the multitudes, the writer gave himself a base on which to build towards a climax that would decide the future of the world, or leave it hanging in the balance.

What if "The Seer" and his followers are right and only by submission to him will the problems of the world ever be resolved?

What if the protagonist suceeds in destroying the credibility of "The Seer" and proves his prophecies to be false? How will the characters and the rest of the world react and respond?

The writer was about to bring his story to its definitive denouement, its revolutionary resolution, its cosmic conclusion, - but as he hovered musingly over his computer keyboard, ponderously poised to complete his literary labours, suppressive stormtroopers burst into his suburban sanctuary and ...