Last Week’s Story:
Well. I just finished week 36’s story, “Hugo and the Mystery of the Missing Maze”, yesterday. Saturday. A full week after I had hoped to have it done. Which means that I only started last week’s story, “The Engineer”, today!
Could be worse, though. I could have left “Hugo and the Mystery of the Missing Maze” unfinished until later this week, which meant I would have had to finish last week’s story and this week’s story all in one week! Impossible! Inconceivable! Doubleplusungood! Etc.! However that won’t be the case. Instead, it’s only two short stories I have to write this week. Bad, I suppose, but not as bad.
Part of the reason for the lower productivity is that last weekend Jennifer and I got our covid/flu booster shots last weekend, and that wiped me out for Sunday and Monday. And I seem to have done somehow horrible to my left shoulder which is making it hard for me to use my left arm for typing. And stress at my dayjob.
HOWEVER! I can do this. I know I can. I’ve done more in the past. I can do this.
This Week’s Prompt:
I rolled a 6 on the D8, and a 2 on the D6, meaning that once again I am writing a science fiction romance. At some point I will be done with this. The romance between William and Sheila will be a multi-story arc, I’ve decided, which means I don’t have to worry about resolving it and bringing it to a Happy-Ever-After (or a Happy-For-Now) at the end of the story, just at the end of the arc. On the other hand, I may not roll this particular combination again, which means the William and Sheila arc may end up unresolved forever! Will it happen? I DON’T KNOW! It’s a mystery!
Anyway, here’s the prompt:
An escaped exeriment wants to track down an untraceable serum, but it will mean giving up the chance to fix their biggest regret.
This should be a fairly easy one. Serums and DNA regeneration are pretty major elements of the science fiction world that Sheila and William live in, so it’s probably going to be easy to come up with an escaped experiment. And a serum. The trick, as always, is going to be inserting the romantic arc into the story. We’ll see how it goes.
This Week’s Recommendation:
It’s a bit of a downer this week, but please please please remember to get your flu and covid shots. Covid is still out there; we’re still in the midst of a pandemic, even if everyone seems to think we’re out of it (we’re actually in the midst of several pandemics, if you count AIDS, SARS, etc., but we won’t go there, will we?).
Anyway. Get your shots.
And as always: Stay safe, stay kind, stay punk as fuck, and have fun! And get your shots!