I Remember Gravity
by James Trivers
On the militaristic Homestead, Velcro lines the bottom of object sand the soles of shoes to hold things down. The ten-thousand-manned space ship has meandered on the far reaches of the empty universe for thirty-five years. Nonetheless, the ship’s shops, schools and services attempts to recapture the amenities of suburban life in the now long-gone earth. A psychiatrist suddenly has a revolution on his hands. Entiredemographics of men, women and children are acting out in a sexual-compulsive manner. People are flocking to the space ship’s boiler rooms where they shed their clothes, float, and fluck anonymously. This spins the shrink into a quandary, he tries to rein in his client’s impulses but he too is swept up in the ship’s zeitgeist.
About Author:
James Trivers is the author of two young adult novels, “I Can Stop Anytime I want” and “Hamburger Heaven” published in hardcover by Prentice Hall and Harper Collins and Avon in paperback separately and respectively. He published a short story, “History” with Swank magazine that was later optioned by New Path Pictures and was produced as a film “Norma Jean, Jack and Me.” It starred Michael Murphy and Sally Kirkland. The movie played various film festivals (Cairo, Palm Springs, San Jose) and was broadcast in “heavy rotation” on the High Def. Movie channel. A short story, “Conscious Dream,” was published in the e-magazine “Portable Muse.” Currently he is collaborating with leading German screenwriter, CP Hant on a book on Adolf Hitler which will be published by Severn House in the UK.
