Fight for the future
Come with me if you want to live…
(yeah, I couldn’t resist adding a second blackout-length sketch this week…it’s a sickness)
INT. BEDROOM NIGHT
SARA, a girl in her mid-twenties sleeps in a dark, but clearly girly bedroom. Electrical popping noises start and lights flash under the closed door to the hallway. The door bursts open, and ALAN, a guy in his late twenties, wearing futuristic black leather, ammo bandoliers, and mirror sunglasses, stands there in a cloud of swirling smoke.
ALAN
Sara Meyers, I’ve come back in time to protect you and your unborn child, a child that I am destined to father. This child will be the last hope of mankind. He will lead the human resistance against the merciless insect overlords that rule Earth in the future. Come with me now if you want to save the human race!
SARA
Insect overlords? God damn it Alan! For the last time...I will not sleep with you no matter what, so stop fucking with the future!!!
Tags: insects, terminator, Time Travel
March 12th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
It's short and sweet but sharply clever. This actually made me laugh quite a bit. So when we you talk about merciless insect overlords are you talking about Dick Cheney clones or … ?:-). Fun piece. Thanks for putting it up!
March 12th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Merciless insect overlords don't shoot their buddies in the face…so I guess they're not closely related to Cheney
March 14th, 2009 at 10:33 am
[...] “Fight for the Future” This one, I was less impressed with. I get the basic idea — guy pretends to be (essentially) Kyle Reese in order to get laid — though I didn’t understand the “stop fucking with the future!” punchline. (And again, the prose needs pruning.) [...]
December 26th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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February 9th, 2010 at 7:04 pm