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Muse Muggers* weekly idea
Your Monday Morning MuseMuggers Prompt
Muse Mugger's idea #77
option 1
Quotes: use one or more. May be used with other prompts or alone.
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. Jim Bishop
I have seen the future and it doesn't work. Robert Fulford
Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. William Gibson
Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee! David Assael
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. Malcolm Forbes
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift
Option 2
Genre: use one or more. May be used with other prompts or alone.
Genre: use Victorian Villainy
Genre: use Alternative historys
Genre: use cyber-punk/western
Genre: use romance/hardboiled detective (sam spade)
option 3
World building: use one or more. May be used with other prompts or alone.
Software Installation and Implementation Branch
Agency of Hardware Development and Security
Department of Computerized Auralion
Black subdivision of Implanted Atomiretrovirus
option 4
Plot: They've been done to death! Give them new life, make them fresh, make them real. use one or more. May be used with other prompts or alone.
The heir to greatness raised in secret who is trying to prove himself to his dead parents and who somehow manages to be a superhero.
The beautiful nerd girl no one notices because she has glasses who wanders the world righting wrongs.
The genial and hearty barkeep whose time-traveling creates their own past.
The aristocratic vampire who is accused of a crime they did not commit and who has endearingly crude traits.
The super-sexy super spy who is the last of a lost species.
The swashbuckling rogue whose odd ideas are actually true and who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
The wise guide who has untapped depths of skill.
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