The last three pieces I had written first and then drawn to fit. This piece I thought I would mix it up a bit and draw first then write to fit. So, although I had a really solid drawing, I had no idea where it was going. Then my father and I had a brief discussion about water rights and the western states, and this began to percolate in the back of my mind. What if Edison had tripped across cold fusion and dismissed it? What if, in the steampunk universe, Colt bought the curiosity and leveraged it for handguns and applied it to industry? Freshwater would be the new oil and all of a sudden; I had about 3,000 more words than I needed. Like Krumple Kringle, this idea is rich with spin offs.
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Huh? Not making any sense? Although Artiste’s vignettes are non-linear, it can help to read the back story: • The Artiste Gullible back story. Of course you could just read them randomly, and trust that it will all come together at some point.
When Colt bought the rights to young Tommy Edison’s invention, with its curious cold power from a wire coiled metal rod, it was only a matter of time before a steam driven plasma arc metered out justice from the end of a hickory handled barrel. Despite historical accounts, however, the blue arc piston revolver was not the gun that won the west. The west was won with water. Freshwater, was, after all, the new clear gold. It powered everything, and water rights were the grub stake that fueled the future of an emerging nation.
The man had unfortunately infringed upon those rights and tested her grit. An action which the woman justly answered with a bolt of steam powered, ozone infused freedom.
