The Wire by David Nadas

From the Archive: David Nadas’ First Sci-Fi

My friend and Sci-Fi author David Nadas sent me a great email describing a significant find he recently made when looking through items stored away for safe keeping. Amongst the artifacts, he discovered a box labeled “personal items.” Inside he was delighted to unearth his first science fiction story. A great find! “The Wire” was created circa fifth or sixth grade and the discovery brought back a flood of memories. Not only was this David’s first science fiction story, but he produced the material in response to a major event in his life.

David revealed to me in his email that he struggled with dyslexia. He based the events of “The Wire” on his elementary school’s identification of his dyslexia. In his email, David summed up the event as follows:

One day I was rounded up along with other students and escorted into a bus and driven to a testing facility. After arriving at the center, the kids and I were led down a long corridor, where they separated us into individual rooms. I found myself in a darkened room, and a strange looking device projected words onto a blackboard in the front of the chamber. The beam of light moved from left to right as it cast the words upon the screen. I was watching the words appear when a voice called out “David, read.” The projected words were moving too fast for me to keep up and I missed every other word. Fear began to well up inside me, and I quickly succumbed to the fear of the moment and was so scared that I could not hear the sound of my voice. After being tortured, I mean tested, for about forty-five minutes, we were loaded back into the bus and driven back to school. The testing repeated over a period of several weeks. I don’t remember talking about this harrowing experience with my parents, and they never discussed the testing with me.

The teacher read “The Wire” to his English class and the students loved the story. His teacher wrote the following words on the cover page and underlined them five times: “Keep Writing.” David has done just that. He is the author of the novella “November Seed” and the short story “From Europa With Love.” In addition to those two works, David will soon release a novel titled “Silversides,” and has other works in progress. David is an author you want to keep on your radar.

In the video included with this post, I only read the first few pages of “The Wire.” If you want to continue where the video leaves off, you can download the short story in its entity in PDF format using the download button below.

Let me know what you think of David’s story and of my first Offworlders video? Considering this is my first green screen video with a new camera and new software, the final result exceeded my expectations. I am sure our videos will improve as I train myself on the software and practice setting up proper lighting. The video was produced using Corel VideoStudio Pro X8, and a Canon VIXIA HF R600 camera.

Thanks for sharing your story David! I look forward to reading “Silversides.”