1. Nothing says ‘I love you’ quite like destroying a national monument, but on the whole she was beginning to regret dating someone who’s superpowers focused on expansion instead of compression… diamonds might be cheesy, but at least they were portable.
2. Old age wasn’t anything to look forward to– at least before scientists perfected Artificial Reincarnation(tm).
3. Being alone isn’t the same thing as being lonely, but over the centuries he’s gotten tired of explaining the difference. So now when mortals look at him with condescending pity when he tells them who and what he is, he just pretends to suffer and everyone’s happy.
4. They’ll build the new world on the ashes of the old– more literally than was pleasant, but they had to make concrete from something…
5. If anyone asks, they’ll just say they found it when they were looking for the ruins. The locals aren’t as familiar with the old technology and chances are good none of them can tell alien tech from human tech anymore…
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Technotari Tags: Writing Prompts
Written Oct 24th, 2009 and filed under Story Prompts, Writing Posts
Tags: Aliens, Alone, Ashes, Building, Concrete, Dating, Diamonds, Imm, Immortal, Literally, Lonely, Love, National Monuments, New World, Old Age, Pity, Reincarnation, Ruins, Suffering, Super, Superpowers, Supervillains, Technology, The End of the World
1. The river was wide, but not deep, which meant the caravan could cross easily– at least for values of ‘easily’ that included spending half the day reconfiguring the wagons to barges and back again.
2. The vines had woven themselves throughout the fence and hissed in annoyance as she unwound them from their conquered territory.
3. Patience wasn’t something she had much of, it had been a long year and too many things had gone wrong to suffer fools quietly– Even if she knew the only reason for the mistakes was the same bone-dead weariness they all suffered.
4. Thunderstorms clustered around the mountain where they hid, gnawing at the rocks with acid rains and electrical fury.
5. Loose lips did more than just sink ships, so when a leak was made more than just the speaker paid the price. Secrets are only secret if you keep them with the dead…
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Technotari Tags: Writing Prompts
Written Oct 3rd, 2009 and filed under Story Prompts, Writing Posts
Tags: Acid Rain, Caravans, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Fools, Leaks, Mistakes, Patience, Press, River, Secrets, Suffering, Thunderstorms, Unhelpful Plants, Vines, Wagons
