FIC: Runaway (original gen)

[duskpeterson]

Title: Runaway.
Author: Dusk Peterson.
Where to find me: Website, e-mail list, DW, AO3, Patreon, Goodreads.
Fandom: Original gen.
Setting: A bridge over the Patuxent River, near the Chesapeake Bay in the 1910s, with the 1960s over the border, except it's the future. Yes, I know that's weird.
Categories: Alternate universe / alternate history, master & servant (with echoes of master & slave), border guards, undocumented immigrants, rebels, balladeers, reference to 1960s cooking (heaven help us), retrofuture science fiction, computers, ethical issues.
Series: Waterman, a speculative fiction series in an alternative version of the Chesapeake Bay region. You don't need to have read the previous stories in this series to understand this one.
Length: Short story.
Status: Completed.
Feedback: Yes, please.
Rating: T.
Warnings: Boilerplate warning for all my stories + my rating system.
Story summary:

Bat is in trouble. Again.

The only way out of the trap this time is to take a leap into the future, into a world of wonders that his mind can scarcely grasp.

But trouble awaits Bat at the border to his refuge. How he handles that trouble will determine his own future . . . and the future of what he is leaving behind.

What wonders would he see in Yclau? Robots? Holovisions? Visiphones? Microwave ovens?