Consumerism Stories

Different diets, different lives. Grocery stores are a microcosm of society at large. What you choose to eat, how you choose to die. All a reflection of the world in which you live. This story shows you glimpses of many shoppers. None of them all that important, especially to each other. All of them connected by their credit cards.

Julie Thorn is a secretary at a big corporation with an annoying boss and boring routine. Until one day she gets a telemarketing call that changes her life forever. (This story is planned to be rewritten as a more comprehensive novella. Comments are most welcome!)

Delphine Pelletier, a 26 years old Montrealer worked for the fashion empire in Paris. Haute Couture, fashion shows, and the after parties in the exclusive nightclubs were part of her job. She had seen it all. She was in it, but she was not part of it. Her job allowed her to meet the crème de la crème of the Paris society. One night, she had a chance to share a ham and cheese sandwich with the Creative Director Louis de Vallois. The next day, she got to babysit the billionaire's son Aurélien Portier, who just came back from Milan as the new CEO of a newly acquired handbag company. She graduated from the most prestigious business school of France, but all she did were making excel files and occasionally serving champagne to the guests. She always had a question in her mind: do these glamorous people do the laundry themselves?

Understandably fast food isn't one of the most fulfilling jobs or the highest paying, 12.38 dollars an hour is a measly wage but to be fair the tasks aren't that hard. After nine months here I am beginning to understand how it alters the mind, you get so bored you begin to notice smaller things about people. The enlarged pupils, scars, shaky hands and bruises. You see things that can change your perspective, ultimately I don't think it was bad for my mind, if anything I've had experiences that allow me to take different perspectives on life, on people. Prologue exert: Everyone has a different definition of paradise, weather its a sunlit beach where waves gently lap at the sand, a valley filled with perfumed flowers or a glistening, snowy utopia. Many never live to feel true paradise no matter how hard they pursue it, so they reach for euphoria in other ways. People take off, escaping on intergalactic journeys using plants, powder and pills. Later, coming back down to their mundane reality. We get taught in school about drugs, the dangers of such a poisonous and addictive escape though many choose to completely ignore these precious threats.

In a world run by algorithms, Erin struggles to belong. She finds an ally in her co-worker Marc, but she soon learns that the way he thinks could be beyond different, even dangerous... This started as a short story, but I'm considering turning it into the prologue for a longer work. Please let me know if you would want to read more about Erin and her quest to save the real Marc!

Less words more Expressions!

The world is dying. We have to save it. Sounds like some dystopian universe, right? Nope. It's Earth right now. Please read on.

Set in a near-future consumerist dystopia where the yearly holiday cycle is repeated every seven days, The War, on Christmas tells the story of teenage Lucy and her Dad, Win, who embark on a holiday road trip like no other--one intended to escape holidays forever. Because no matter how many times you tell yourself life is a gift, if your life is just gifts, it's no life at all.

It's a short story about life and it's cycle. Every living things depends on someone else for food and nutrition to survive. Whether it is humans or someone else. Do you think we will ever be able to escape this cycle? Do we really need to escape this cycle? Or can we just accept the way it is?

The city of the future is not built. It is manufactured. It does not cater to the needs of its people, but people's needs are catered to it. s

Horror beach read about the horrors of the beach and consumerism in culture.