'No Good Deed' Published...

You may be interested to know that another of my short stories was published by Indiebloggers. "No Good Deed" was a story I wrote several years ago - a character-based science fiction short I was thinking of developing in to a novel.

I wanted to write a story about a boy who takes that step into manhood. It's a classic theme and I wanted to visit it without boring people. Too much these days, male development is told in the context of your first sexual experience, when something terrible happened to you. It doesn't always have to be that way. Humans have been growing into adults for a long time now - the process is large enough to encompass when a young person does the right thing, even though it happens to be impossible.

The story goes through some classic themes - you might not be surprised to learn that I drew from Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and various short stories by Robert Heinlein. I generated some technical terms and nomenclature ('danjir' and 'MH-105', for example). Sci-fi has been doing that for a while and I didn't want to bog the story down with it. It's there, it helps tell the story but it isn't the story. The story is this boy and the annoying brat he dislikes but must save anyway.

"No Good Deed" @ IndieBloggers...