Review – Desperation
Desperation comes in an odd place in this story. But parents will know this feeling all too, uncomfortably, well.
Background
For a prompt of the same name, I decided to go with one of life’s little desperations. While others might have concentrated on a damaged ship or a damaged relationship, I zigged instead of zagged. Therefore, I wrote the merry mix-ups that occur when you are trying to toilet train your recalcitrant mixed-species toddler.
Yes, I went there.
Plot
Clockworks
Future Temporal Integrity Commission employee Otra D’Angelo experiences a small milestone in her young life. Takes place in 3069.
However, her parents are getting a bit impatient. But she doesn’t care. And so little Otra D’Angelo will not become toilet trained for love or money or any amount of coaxing.
So her father, Marco, is driven to broken English, mixed with Italian. And her mother, Chefra, wants to go back to work and is tired of this nonsense already.
But, like countless little children before her, Otra knows that she’s in control. So she takes full advantage of that. While Marco tears his hair out in frustration, and Chefra tries to sweet talk her, Otra has her own ideas.
Story Postings
- Desperation on the Ad Astra forums
- Story: Desperation on Fanfiction.net (Clockworks anthology)
- Desperation on Fictionpad (Clockworks anthology)
- And Posting: Desperation on Wattpad (Clockworks anthology)
- Desperation in Times of the HG Wells context
Rating
The story is Rated K.
Upshot
Star Trek is rather famous for not showing family life. But this is not only a mixed-species family, it is also a family where four separate languages are spoken! However, I think it’s a fairly decent introduction to Otra, the woman with an odd gift for seeing alternate timelines.
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