Extract from an Unfinished Work
Hello. I’m relatively new to the writeblr community, however I notice some of you pop in short notes before your writing, and I thought I should do the same to explain some of my writing. I’m predominantly a sci-fi writer; I study psychology, however have a strong interest in other sciences, so I guess that makes sense. I’m mostly just writing here to prove to myself that I can, really. Maybe along the way I’ll find that other people have an interest in the stories I have to share.
I have two (and a half) books I’m currently exploring. The below is an extract from the first.
“The human race has always walked the razors’ edge: between good and evil, light and dark, survival and extinction.
Or, perhaps, that’s just what we’d like to believe. After all, history is just what we’ve written- we set the stage, we wrote the scenes. We forgave our heroes, condemned our villains to a fate we convinced ourselves they deserved.
And maybe they did. Or maybe we chose to see black and white, right and wrong, when there was nothing different between the two at all. Perhaps it is the design of all humans to choose this strange balancing act for themselves. To live their lives truly believing they know wrong from right.
Before us, humans had always walked their line alone. Perhaps that is why they fear us- they fear what we mean, what we say about their neat little lines. That is how the struggle for humanity begins: not for the race, but for the word. It begins with realising you have blood on your hands, and that you’ll do anything to keep from admitting your sins.”