Twilight:2000-Different Direction

[weswood]

I was thinking not so much of the president, but the "national police force" with a TSA intelligence/attitude- strip searching 8 year old kids and 80 year old grandmothers but letting 20 something men of obvious middle eastern descent sail through security checkpoints so the TSA won't be accused of profiling. I just heard on the radio some guy was transporting his grandfather's ashes and some TSA agent searched the urn (stirring her finger through the ashes) then dropped & spilled the ashes. And then laughed. WTF.

The plan is a 3 month wait between the EMP and KEWs and the first alien drops. I figure any National Guard and State armories would be looted by starving rioters before they land.

I had planned on starting the story with one of the main characters out hunting with his Sharps rifle. He makes his way back to the hunting lease camp and his daughter comes out of the cabin bitching about the electricity being out. He tries his truck and it won't start. Tries the hunting jeep, an old '72 CJ and that does start. Most hunting leases I or my family and friends have been on are a 5 to 8 hour drive from Houston. So hero has to drive and fight his way 250 to 500 miles through stranded motorist, Blackshirts (the slang for the National Police Force), and gang bangers.

I'd like to have several different viewpoints of the story, maybe even an orc grunt.

Maybe I ought to get off my buttocks and start writing. I'm temporarily unemployed, got laid off in April.

Maybe the "Ace in the Hole" could be a bunch of 14 & 15 year old kids dressed in Drow battle armor infiltrating the mothership.

Wes