Digital Blasphemy has a free page where they rotate through some of their wallpapers that you can download without even being a member. That's where I got the picture for this week:
"Gotham Garden - Autumn"
(I hesitated to put the title here - I hope it doesn't influence what you think of the picture.)
Enjoy!
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My response:
The crisp autumn breeze caught my hair as I stepped out the front door of the building. I slowed my steps as I lifted my hands, catching the long, silky strands in my fingers and slipping them into an elastic. My feet started on their way home while I was distracted, but when I finished securing my hair, I looked around.
I liked working late shift. I got to sleep in early, I didn't have to show up to work until 2pm, and I got off at 11pm, when most of the city had already gone to bed. I loved walking home with the streets all to myself. I could pretend it all belonged to me. My city.
The glass and steel buildings gleamed in the moonlight, lights off in most of the windows. If my history classes were right, that was a huge accomplishment. Cities like this used to buzz all night, first with the after work crews, then with those who didn't know when to stop, and finally, the people who preyed on those who didn't know when to stop. Those were trecherous days ... or so they told us.
But I had a hard time seeing my city as anything different than it was. Clean, quiet, peaceful.
That was about to change.
(This is where my mind launches off into "How are they all peaceful now? Genetic modification? Implants that zap them whenever they have violent thoughts? Is it a Matrix scenario where the people in charge unplug anyone who causes trouble? Or maybe they're just all afraid of Batman? So many possibilities, so little time.)
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