Saturday, December 19, 2009

Mommies and Daddies - Leigh Brackett

Short Story

Number of words : 4000
Percent of complex words : 5.9
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 12.4

Fog : 7.3
Flesch : 78.3
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.4


SETTING

The Institute for Congenital Addiction

Home for children - the Junkys. Known as Junkyville by the hunters. Is not stated as to where it is, somewhere on future dystopic Earth is the implication, and Western and likely USA given Brackett's inclinations.

Foundling Home

A different home for children.



CHARACTERS

Deke

A boy that escapes from the institute, and wants to join the Wild Ones and be in the upper echelon.

Stella

A hunter that meets Deke.

Chad

The Wild Ones chief that takes Deke on.

Tell

An institute escapee.

John

An institute escapee.

Sara

An institute escapee.

Matron

Official at the Institute.

Mr Timmins

Teacher at the Institute.



ORGANISATIONS


Free Peoples

Those living outside authority, desperate and victims.

The Wild Ones

Top of the gang pecking order.

Foundlings

Lower tier gangs of the abandoned.

Junkies

The lowest of the low. Children of addicts.


PLOT

A boy escapes from a strictly controlled home for abandoned children of drug abusers, and sets out to join a gang and strike back. The leaders of these organisations take recruits and train them to hunt and kill adults as revenge.


4 out of 5

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