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Your Monday Morning MuseMuggers Prompt
Muse Mugger's idea #83
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco (1932 - )
The end excuses any evil.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC).
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
It was only a child, yet it was ...
Why do you keep...
Forget the pain ...
You would think he'd learn, after ...
Setting: post-apocalypse. Theme:urban legend man-versus-nature story
Setting: sword-and-sorcery. Theme:war/loss-of-greatness story
Setting: high fantasy/space opera. Theme:technology gone amok/surreal story
Setting: mythological alternate history. Theme:myth story
In this story, an exorcist who suffers from a chronic disease falls in love with an insane murderer - all thanks to someone questioning authority. It seems someone putting on make-up will bring them even closer together
In this story, an infamous electrician crosses paths with a fisherman with a peculiar lack of magical talent. What starts as loathing becomes infatuation - all thanks to a deception. Yet, how can an archivist whose body was infected by an alien seeking to reproduce tear them apart?
The story starts in a dungeon. The story takes place a thousand years in the past. During the story, a well-established leader steps down. The story must have a construction worker at the beginning.
The story starts during an eclipse. The story takes place in the afternoon. During the story, someone turns another person in. A character becomes pessimistic during the story.
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