I wasn't planning on entering the contest (and I'm not), but bits of this story kept going around in my head. So I decided to go ahead and post it anyway, instead of just reading your stories, since I am offically not a lurker anymore now.
Btw, I did really enjoy your fantasies! They made me giggle, and Kamar, I don't think I am ever going to get the picture of Adam dressed up as a French whore out of my head again. :-)
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The city is still asleep. Under the big tree in the park someone sits, very quiet but very much awake. He still had no idea what hit him that night, but he was already sure he liked it.
In the small kitchen that had once been painted orange a radio is playing. Someone is trying to bake a cake for the first time. She doesn't know how or why, but just that it should be big and spectacular and that she is going to share it with every neighbour she can find.
At the party in the old warehouse people look around as if they see each other for the first time. And in a sense, they do. No lonely and drunken escape anymore, but a place to connect and enjoy the evening together. The vaguely unsettling feeling that something big just happened disappeares quickly in the beat of the music.
Somewhere in a classroom a pretty girl writes a note to the boy in black sitting next to her. It says 'you're weird but I don't care. 8 PM tonight?' Her pink earphones are just visible in her pocket.
At the university scientists are getting frustrated. Something is going on in the world. At first it seems subtle, people are just happier, more connected and more likely to start dancing without warning. But lately people have been observed kissing strangers in the street, waving with a glittery black and yellow feather boa. What if this gets even worse and spreads...? All they know it happens mostly to people who are exposed to the radio. It seems to be something like a musical virus, but everybody knows that's impossible.
They decide to name the phenomenon 'Adam'. A bit because it feels like a new beginning, but mostly of course after Adam Lambert, whose voice has been unavoidable for months now on radio stations, parties and music players around the world.
