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Idea #5
Intro:
I cannot help but laugh out loud every time I think about this particular idea. I'll be the first to admit that it isn't brilliant, that it won't shake the foundations of modern literature and that many people will find it moderately offensive. The good news is that this is exactly what I've always thought good satire should be; but since I'm not a very good satirist - I'm far too literal for that - this idea hasn't gone much beyond a few notes and paragraphs of introduction. At first I thought it could be a novel, but there isn't enough substance here for anything more than a short story or a Will Ferrell movie.
Idea:
The Y-chromosome is disappearing. For the past few hundreds years the proportion of female to male has tipped decidedly to females, and left the world in crisis. A hundred years before we begin our story a new society has sprung up, clustered in shrinking cities dotted across the landscape. And the most important natural resource: men.
In a New York with slightly less than two-million people there are only 5 men. They are raised from youth to work full time at elegant breeding facilities, where women of the utmost physical perfection and intellectual prowess apply for permission to breed. Taking up to 20 partners a day they are handsomly rewarded for their work, and given generous bonuses for each successful pregnancy; but they live without love, and with little freedom since it is too dangerous to travel outside the facility without a disguise.
Our young protagonist and his slightly older male friend go on a shopping spree to spend a recent bonus. Dressed in drag - all the more convincing since they are trained in how to appear female for years before they are allowed to leave the facility - they go to a local coffee shop, where our protagonist falls in love with the waitress.
At first, the protagonist begins the relationship pretending to be female. Eventually, through an exercise in sexual indiscretion, his secret gets out. They continue the relationship until she is impregnated. In a few short months, they are doomed to discovery and they face impossible choices.
They choose to run. There is a legend about a place - called Mangri-La by the other men in the facility - where women and men co-exist, where male children are born regularly (a feat attributed to something in the water). Rumoured to be somewhere in Mexico, the protagonist and his pregnant love head south...
I cannot help but laugh out loud every time I think about this particular idea. I'll be the first to admit that it isn't brilliant, that it won't shake the foundations of modern literature and that many people will find it moderately offensive. The good news is that this is exactly what I've always thought good satire should be; but since I'm not a very good satirist - I'm far too literal for that - this idea hasn't gone much beyond a few notes and paragraphs of introduction. At first I thought it could be a novel, but there isn't enough substance here for anything more than a short story or a Will Ferrell movie.
Idea:
The Y-chromosome is disappearing. For the past few hundreds years the proportion of female to male has tipped decidedly to females, and left the world in crisis. A hundred years before we begin our story a new society has sprung up, clustered in shrinking cities dotted across the landscape. And the most important natural resource: men.
In a New York with slightly less than two-million people there are only 5 men. They are raised from youth to work full time at elegant breeding facilities, where women of the utmost physical perfection and intellectual prowess apply for permission to breed. Taking up to 20 partners a day they are handsomly rewarded for their work, and given generous bonuses for each successful pregnancy; but they live without love, and with little freedom since it is too dangerous to travel outside the facility without a disguise.
Our young protagonist and his slightly older male friend go on a shopping spree to spend a recent bonus. Dressed in drag - all the more convincing since they are trained in how to appear female for years before they are allowed to leave the facility - they go to a local coffee shop, where our protagonist falls in love with the waitress.
At first, the protagonist begins the relationship pretending to be female. Eventually, through an exercise in sexual indiscretion, his secret gets out. They continue the relationship until she is impregnated. In a few short months, they are doomed to discovery and they face impossible choices.
They choose to run. There is a legend about a place - called Mangri-La by the other men in the facility - where women and men co-exist, where male children are born regularly (a feat attributed to something in the water). Rumoured to be somewhere in Mexico, the protagonist and his pregnant love head south...
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