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Your Monday Morning MuseMuggers Prompt




Muse Mugger's idea #62



Option 1

Pick an image.



Option 2

Pick one or more of the following quotes:

Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
I'm not young enough to know everything.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
The man with a new idea is a crank - until the idea succeeds.


Option 3

Start AND END the story with the words:

(pick a single option)

Crimson skys,...
My dear, you've not heard ...
It was far more than just a stone ...
The whydah sang of ...
It's all in the eye ...



Option 4

Pick one or more

What if...

...King George III was actually Magellan?
...Mao Tse Tung was deliberately responsible for terraforming?
...Nero was a reporter?
...Queen Victoria was brought down by Pythagoreas?
...the Sino-Japanese War involved a mysterious conspiracy?
...the advent of color television had never happened?
...the spread of Christianity involved interstellar travel?
...Thomas Agrippa was connected to Marco Polo by occult arts?
...the fall of the Aztec Empire had never happened?



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