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Challenge: Use the FFM 2009-2022 promtp generator to generate two prompts. Use them as inspiration for a story that takes place at least 100 years in the past. Optionally, use the first two prompts you generate.
I picked the first prompts I got, which turned out to be Math homework, as completed by an English major. by Flash-Fic-Month (Year 2009) and Monologue of an everyday problem. by Goldfish-In-Space (Year 2014).
Going back in time to look into what the university had been like in the 1890s had been a mistake. Sarah had concluded that the moment she had enrolled at a mathematics course because the paper course enrollment system did not bat an eye at the fact that she had picked something strange instead of a mandatory course. Now she was slated to return home with a bunch of marked homework that showed exactly why she had not majored in the STEM area.
And electricity. It was a spreading thing right now, but it was painfully clear that it was limited. A break from the social media was good, but Sarah missed her phone’s calculator so bad. The quality of life… had most certainly been much less than she had expected. Then again, she had not read the brochure thoroughly enough, apparently, so that was probably on her. Still. She was going to appreciate her apartment’s flickery lights and shitty plumbing a whole lot more once she got back home.
Ugh. She wanted to go home already, but stopping the trip midway was only admitting defeat. And a waste of money. She had better keep going or else…
…Well, she sure would not want to be labeled anything because she couldn’t handle the 1890s.
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