My Short Story

My short story will be set in America in a future dystopia world where civilizations have gone to poverty. More than 98% of America is unemployed, due to all the jobs being taken by computers and robots. The main character will be a 15 year old girl named Valerie, but all she has ever known was living in poverty due to robots and computers. Her family is not that bad off; they still have decent food to eat and a home with walls and a roof. However, they are considered "lucky". Since she has never known any better, she just deals with living this way and doesn't complain.

The world will be introduced by Valerie waking up, and going to get the small breakfast her mother has prepared for her. While eating her mother tells her that her dad got promoted to a job that pays $4 an hour. This is a huge deal, and they celebrate. Her father is one of the few people left with a job. He is a barber, and barbers are one of the few jobs left for humans to do. Robots have been banned from being barbers because of the many incidents of eyes being poked out. The conversation will continue on and her mother were announce that her little brother's birthday is that day. Valerie decides to go and get things from outside to make a small party for him. While Valerie is outside looking for things to throw the party with, she will face many dangerous people. She is used to having to be defensive because that is the world she has grown up in. Throughout her journey, she kept on hearing ruffling in the bushes and felt like someone was watching her. She collects all the items, and heads back to set the party up. When the party starts, and guy shows up and begins to cause chaos. He was being violent, and there is a fight. With this, they defeat the guy, and everything goes back to normal and they continue having the party like nothing happened. I want to convey on how Valerie has grown up in a world like this, and having this man attack their party was not a very big deal, and the only thing she was worried about was the decorations being messed up.