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by RG » Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:47 pm
Neither community perished. Once the asteroid was gone, so was the danger. Both sides went on to live long lives, one group above ground, the other in their safe bunker where nothing could touch them.
I guess the ending is still a little ambiguous, though. You don't really know if the above ground people are banging on the door to try and get the bunker people to come to their senses and come outside, or if the people outside suddenly want to get inside themselves.
When I originally wrote it, I had the people above suddenly realize the bunker dwellers were right, and they started pounding on the door to be let in. It seemed to be the funnier way to go, but I ended up changing it. It just didn't seem believable, in a silly satire, for them to change their minds so quickly. The way it ends now, with them pounding on the door and yelling, it implies that they're frustrated with the other group's stubbornness and are trying to get them out, not to get inside themselves.
I didn't realize it right away, but Sheltered and The Frozen People are kind of similar in one way. They both have a group of people who want to get away from the world. One group escapes into a bunker, the other into a lake where they get to sleep for a year.
Question for Norm: Is it okay to use Ray Sizemore's narration (which I loved, by the way) for a little iMovie project? I'm thinking of mixing some drawings in with the narration and make a little movie I can post on YouTube. Kevin was right. The story has a kind of child's fable quality to it, and my drawings will definitely be child-like.