Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-32764586-20180522211853/@comment-35711173-20180528071346

Potatoes - a new world crop. First imported to the Old World around 1600. The story couldn't be before that.

Sword control was as big a deal as gun control is now. They wanted serfs to be helpless.

The way they talked didn't feel old. Even their relationship felt fairly modern.

So is this in the present? Is it in the future? It kind of has to be in the future for the Apocalypse since it never happened up to now. If so where's any bit of current technology? A broken TV, electricty that's out, a truck with no gas, a well water pump with no fuel ...

A hungry farmer wouldn't waste pig intestines or pig blood. Every bit of that animal would be used, down to the squeal.

I don't feel what happened to the boy. It wasn't heard? OK, something not ordinary happened but well it feels like a hole that wasn't fully reacted to.