Belinda Setzer
Stories (2/0)
The Future
It was another grey and dismal day in Cityscape, nothing ever changed. There was always a food shortage since we couldn’t grow crops anymore, we had to import everything. Water shortages because of the droughts. Air pollution so devastating masks and re-breathers were not only mandatory, but they were also lifesaving. The old United States back in the day had implemented restrictions on factories and industries, so much that major companies had moved elsewhere, mainly overseas. What happens though when those countries decide to clean up? They buy land in the cash-strapped United States. Major cities like Chicago and Detroit were practically giving industrial land away after the COVID pandemic in the 2020s. Many of the large corporations from overseas just bought it all. Then they moved all their industry here and all of ours right back along with it, including all the waste. So now we live in the worst polluted country in the world. It is a miserable existence if you can exist at all. Many have died.
By Belinda Setzer3 years ago in Fiction
Molding Happiness
Creative has never been a word that I would have used when describing myself. I was a secretary for many years, my most creative endeavor was designing spec sheets for a weapons manufacturer back in the early '90s. But after some surgeries left me with a pain in the ass condition called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) I became homebound and bored. Last year at the beginning of the COVID stuff, I was putting up a blow-up pool for my grandson. Tripped and fell and broke my humerus. One of the therapy tools they give you while you are in a sling, is a rubber ball to squeeze in the hand of the fractured arm, to keep the muscles moving. You know the old saying, if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it. My grandson had some air-dry and polymer clay that we had gotten for arts and crafts. I grabbed a small ball of clay and started playing with it. It was great, the smooth texture, reminded me of playdough as a kid, after 5 minutes the stiffness from arthritis in my hands had left. Damn this is awesome, I thought.
By Belinda Setzer3 years ago in Lifehack